Fundamentals of Circuits and Electronic

Recommended Prerequisites

No prior knowledge is required.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practice classes with the issues exposition and presentation of examples to consolidate the contents. Practical classes with laboratory assembly and simulation of circuits.

Learning Outcomes

Provide adequate training about the instrumentation for measuring and visualization of electrical quantities. Provide the students with the essential techniques of circuit analysis to be succed in the following curricular units that depend on it.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Electrical quantities. Notion of electric charge, current, Voltage, and Power. Electrical resistance and Ohm's law. Laws of Kirchhoff. Association of sources and resistances in series and parallel. Voltage and current divider circuit. Transformation of sources. Equivalents of Thévenin and Norton. Maximum power transfer. Principle of overlap. Notion of coil and capacitor. Voltage-current relationship. Association in series and in parallel of coils and capacitors. Circuit simulation tools. Notion of semiconductor. Type N. Type P. Majority and minority carriers. Junction diodes. PN junction. Characteristic curves. Type of diodes and applications. Half wave and full wave rectification. Limiting circuits. Transistors. Bipolar transistors. Constitution and operation of bipolar transistors. Constitution and operation of bipolar transistors. Switching and amplification. Typical assemblies.

Head Lecturer(s)

Jaime Baptista dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 15.0%
Mini Tests: 35.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Jaime Batista dos Santos  (2016)- ANÁLISE DE CIRCUITOS ELÉTRICOS, Publindústria, Porto, 2016

 - James Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel,  "ELECTRIC CIRCUITS"

 - Microelectronic Circuits - 7th. Edition, Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith, Oxford University Press.