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Electrotechnics and Electronics

Electrotechnics and Electronics

Code	9095
Year	2
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	PL(30H)/T(30H)
Scientific area	Electrotécnica
Entry requirements	N/A
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face
Work placements	N/A.
Learning outcomes	- Analyze circuits in AC and DC systems. - Understand the transformer operation. - Understand the fundamentals of electronics. - Develop the ability to solve problems in electric and electronic circuits and experimentally analyse them. - Develop electronics equipment's design, implementation and testing skills. - Perform experimental assemblies of electrical and electronic circuits. - Organize and prepare technical data related to both equipment and experimental protocols applied in the analysis of both electric and electronic circuits. - Participate in audits, standardization procedures and introduction of new equipment and techniques in the market. - Work individually and within a team.
Syllabus	Analysis of circuits in both direct and alternating currents: the signals, the supplies, the measuring instruments, the loads; the Kirchhoff's laws; the average and root-mean-square values; the phasorial analysis; the three-phase systems; the power. The transformer. Junction Diodes: characteristics; the zener diode; the rectifier circuits, the filtering components; current limiters. Bipolar Junction Transistors: characteristics; the emitter follower circuit; the common-emitter amplifier circuit; coupling between circuits; the Ebers-Moll model; non-ideal characteristics of the transistors; the current mirrors; the differential pair. Operational Amplifiers: characteristics and basic assemblies.
Main Bibliography	1. Classroom slides, Maria do Rosário Alves Calado, UBI 2022. 2. DC Electrical Circuit Analysis: A Practical Approach, James M Fiore, Independently published, 2020. ISBN: ? 1654515477. 3. The Art of Electronics, P. Horowitz and W. Hill, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 4. AC Electrical Circuit Analysis: A Practical Approach, James M. Fiore, Independently published, 2020. ISBN: 8605022282. 5. Introdução aos Circuitos Eléctricos e Electrónicos, M. de Medeiros Silva, Fundação C. Gulbenkian, 2001. 6. Notes to support the theoretical classes, Maria do Rosário Alves Calado, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2017.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.