Course detail

Electrical Engineering and Electronics in Physical Experiment

FSI-TEF Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

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

Supervisor

Ing. Zdeněk Nováček, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Physical Engineering

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.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

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 hours, compulsory

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.