Course detail

Electrical Engineering and Electronics in Physical Experiment

FSI-TEFAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course deals with the properties of electronic circuit elements and their use in experimental practice. Attention is paid to measuring instruments, generators, filters, operational amplifiers, signal processing, and fundamentals of logic circuits. Practical applications support lectures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Zdeněk Nováček, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Physical Engineering (ÚFI)

Entry knowledge

Fundamental electric and magnetic quantities (electric charge, voltage, current, electromagnetic field vectors).

Fundamentals of electromagnetism (Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, Coulomb's law, Biot-Savart's law, Faraday's law, Ampere's law).

Electrical and magnetic properties of matter.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course is evaluated based on the final test.

Attendance is checked at the beginning of laboratory lessons. Missed laboratory lessons can be replaced (In excused cases): during the semester with another group or at the end of the semester as an individual assignment.



Aims

The course enables students to build on knowledge from earlier studies and expand these with practical skills.

Students will learn the basics of modern electrical engineering and electronics necessary for mastering future technical practice. Students whose primary focus is physical and technical will gain a basic understanding of electronics, measurement principles and methods, and measuring instruments. The main focus is on the laboratory practice.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Balabanian N.: Electric Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-FIN-P Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Zdeněk Nováček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Electrical quantities and their relationships, electronic components, circuits

Electronic devices - Power supplies, oscilloscopes, function generators

Capacitance and inductance, alternating voltage, derivative and integration elements, filters

Software tools in electrical engineering - circuit simulation, PCB design

Semiconductor components - diodes, transistors, integrated circuits

Amplifiers and their properties, the basic connection of an operational amplifier

Addition, difference, integration, derivative and transimpedance connection of operational amplifiers, active filters, typical uses

Measurement of non-electric quantities, measurement errors, sensors

Spectral analysis of signals, digitization of signals, properties of A/D and D/A converters

Regulation and automation - continuous and discontinuous regulation, basic types of regulators, and their use in industrial and laboratory practice

Origin and effect of interference and noise, types of noise, filtering of signals, lock-in detection

Logic gates, combinational and sequential logic circuits

Laboratory exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Zdeněk Nováček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Safety in laboratories, multimeter, resistance divider, solderless breadboard.
  2. Laboratory power supplies, function generators, oscilloscopes. Measurement of IV characteristics.
  3. Measurement of capacitor charging. Measurement of frequency characteristics of filters.
  4. Simulation of electronic circuits.
  5. Puny single diode and full bridge rectifier, integrated voltage stabilizer, switching mode power supply.
  6. Measurement of the characteristics of the inverting op amp circuit.
  7. Relaxation oscillator and active filter based on operational amplifier.
  8. Measurement of small signals using an operational amplifier.
  9. Signal digitization, temperature to frequency conversion.
  10. Connecting and observing the response of the analog PI controller.
  11. Demonstration of the use of a lock-in amplifier for detecting weak signals.
  12. Logic circuits - examples and simulation of flip-flops, SPI communication and use of a logic analyzer.