Basic Electronics Course Outline

Semester 1

Course Name: Basic Electronics

Course Code: EE 170

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

  

Objective:

Introduce the basic concepts of electronic circuits and electronic devices including analog circuits, diodes, transistors, transistor biasing, rectifiers, and amplifiers. Introduction to FET.

Course Outline:  

Circuit concepts, Series circuits, Parallel Circuits, Current divider circuits, Voltage divider circuits.  Kirchhoff’s laws, DC circuits, Mutual Induction, Faraday’s law.

 Fundamentals of Semiconductor, Band theory, semiconductors (intrinsic and extrinsic), pn junction diode, forward biased, reverse biased, pn junction as a rectifier, half wave and full wave rectifier,

Clipper and clamper circuits, LED, photo diode etc.,

Transistors: Bipolar Junction transistors, BJT transistors characteristics curves, BJT as a switch, BJT amplifiers, Common base amplifier, Common emmiter amplifier,Common Collector amplifier.

Metal oxide transistors, MOS,nMOS, pMOS circuits. Introduction to A/D and D/A conversion circuits.

Reference Material: 

1.    Freedman and Young, University Physics, (10^th and higher editions).

2.    Resnick, Halliday and  Krane, College Physics (6^th and higher edition).

3.     Thomas. L. Floyd, “ Fundamental of Electronic Circuits” Ninth Edition, 2008, 

4.    Solid State and Basic Electronics by B.L Theraja

5.    Basic Electronics by J.D Ryder