PHY3104 ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION

This course builds on the Electronics course PHY 2203, done in second year. It covers transducers, mainly, including transmitters and receivers, and gives examples of measuring instruments and regulators. Students get to experiment with these instruments

Course Objectives
By the end of this course, the students should be to

• Differentiate between input and output transducers
• Explain the general principle of transducers and the basic building blocks of a communication system.
• Analyze amplitude modulated (AM) and frequency modulated (FM) signals using the Fourier transform.
• Describe practical methods for the demodulation of AM and FM signals; the basic circuits of a simple radio receiver; the inner parts and functioning of a typical multimeter.
• Perform experiments to link theory and practical concepts

Expected outcomes
On completion, successful students will be able to

• Define a transducer and give examples
• Describe the working of common radiation transducers
• Distinguish between capacitive and inductive transducers
• Draw a block diagram of a communication system and describe the function of each block
• Design a voltmeter, an ammeter and an ohmmeter
• List the common uses of the CRO