AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learn the main notions and applications of electrical and electronic measurements.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student acquires basic knowledge on circuits and electromagnetism, on binary logic and arithmetic, and on electrical measurements and metrology, so to master laboratory test and measurement tasks. For the vast majority, instrumentation is in fact nowadays electronic and digital.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures in classroom with supporting material (slides).

Students having documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) or special needs can addres the Teacher(s) and the Referent for SLD of teh Department before the beginning of the lessons in order to define special teaching methods to guarantee the achievement of objectives and learning outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1) Basics of electromagnetics

• Basics of electrotechnics
• Ohm's law and circuit solution with Kirchoff
• Passive components (resistors, inductors, capacitors)
• Introduction to forces and intensity in an electric or magnetic field

2) Introduction to Measurements

• Basics of Measurements
• Sistematic, random and accidental errors, related statistics
• Introduction to the law of error propagation

3) Basics of Digital Electronics

• Binary arithmetic
• Decimal/Binary and Binary/Decimal conversion
• Logic gates

4) Introduction to electronic design

• Analog and logic quantities
• Boolean algebra, Boolean equations
• Principles of buffering and amplification of signals

5) A/D and D/A conversion

• General caracteristics of information
• Discretization in time and amplitude
• Sampling, Quantization and Conversion errors
• Electronic instrumentation (basics)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Course notes in the form of slides partially in Italian and English.

Textbook fo rthe part on measurement theory discussed in the course:

John Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis, 2nd ed., University Science Books, California, 1997. ISBN: 0-935702-42-3

Other texts like excerpts, manuals or papers will be provided in the classroom, made available through AulaWeb or a web-link.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First year, first semester. 

Calendar can be found at the following web page: https://easyacademy.unige.it/

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Online test together with the other modules of the course. Questions with closed answers of various difficulty levels and different weighting.

During the exam the regulations will be followed for the evaluation of students with documented SLD or other specific necessities as identified by the University (such as additional time during written exams or use of conceptual maps to provide to the Teacher one week before the date of the exam).

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Questions cover various parts of the course-module content. A question might have more than one answer (e.g. "which units of measure belong to the international measurement system?") or a unique answer (e.g. "what is the power dissipated in the two resistors connected in parallel when fed with 10V DC?")

The base elements of the discipline must be known to consider the exam passed.