Electronic praktikum

Class enrollment.
Passed exam on Elektronika I or proof on presence during lectures of this or similar course, where students learn on operation of basic electronic circuits.

Instruments and accessories:
basic electronic instruments (oscilloscope, function generator, power supply),
analog and digital electronic circuits.
Practical work in the laboratory with circuits:
transistor, model of an operational amplifier,
amplifier stage with operational amplifier and its frequency characteristics,
integrator, sample and hold, amplitude detector, instrumentation amplifier,
analog control circuit, relaxation oscillator, rate meter,
switching power supply,
logic gates, counter, uni-vibrator,
synchronous state machine,
capacitance meter, analog multiplier, lock-in detection, voltage to frequency converter, amplitude modulator, measurement bridge,
temperature regulation.

D. Ponikvar in J. Pahor, Elektronski praktikum za fizike. DMFA - založništvo.
J. Pahor, Elektronika za fizike. DMFA - založništvo.
D. Ponikvar: Za boljšo rabo osciloskopa, Digitalni osciloskop, internet, avtorjeva stran.

Objectives:
familiarization with the operation of basic electronic circuits and the use of electronic instruments including the evaluation of signals in electronic circuits.
Competences:
experimental skills,
the use of electronic test instruments,
properties and testing of basic electronic circuits.

Knowledge and understanding
Familiarity with properties of basic electronic instruments (oscilloscope, function generator, probe, power supply...) including their operation. The understanding of the use of electronic instruments and procedures for the observation of signals. The operation of basic electronic circuits.

Application
The knowledge gained allows a practical understanding of operation for electronic circuits, the measurement of electrical signals and the use of instruments for measurement in physics including the analysis of electrical signals.

Reflection
Practical electronics based on examples in the laboratory, practical use of electronic instruments needed by those who will deal with measurements.

Transferable skills
The familiarity with techniques for observation of electrical signals is of use to everybody working in practical physics, where results rely on measurement skills.

Laboratory experiments, consultations.

Oral examination on experiments
Practical demonstration of the use of electronic instruments.
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

• PONIKVAR, Dušan. A simple subnanosecond light pulser. IEEE trans. nucl. sci., 2012, vol. 59, no. 6,
  str. 3218-3220. [COBISS-SI-ID 2552420],

• ZAMPIERI, L., ČADEŽ, Andrej, PONIKVAR, Dušan. The Crab pulsar seen with AquEYE at
  Asiago Cima Ekar observatory. Advances in Space Research. [Online ed.], 2011, let. 47, št. 2,
  str. 365-369. [COBISS-SI-ID 362881],

• PONIKVAR, Dušan. Tools and setups for experiments with AC and rotating magnetic fields.
  Eur. j. phys., 2010, vol. 31, no. 5, str. 1255-1266, doi: 10.1088/0143-0807/31/5/025.
  [COBISS-SI-ID 2271076],

• PONIKVAR, Dušan, PLANINŠIČ, Gorazd. Conservation of mechanical and electric energy :
  simple experimental verification. Eur. j. phys., 2009, vol. 30, no. 1, str. 47-56, doi:
  10.1088/1043-0807/30/1/005. [COBISS-SI-ID 2153316],

• PONIKVAR, Dušan. Teaching and field work for IAEA : nuclear electronics and
  instrumentation 1989-2007. V: IAEA Meeting on the Role and Utilization of the Regional
  Resource Centres : 2nd-6th of June 2008, Vienna, Austria. Vienna: IAEA, 2008, 14 str.
  [COBISS-SI-ID 2128740],