Electronics ComponentsLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

After completing this course the student understands the operating principles of various electronic components and their intended use. The student can build a small electronic device from basic components and understands its operating principle. He or she understands the behaviour of the components in a direct and alternating current circuits and can read circuit diagrams.

Content

1. Resitors and their behaviour in electronic circuits
- Ohm's law
- serial- and parallel connections, voltage and current distribution
- power loss in a resistor
- basic resistors: carbon-, metallic-, etc., and the color coding scheme and tolerances
- potentiometer
- NTC-, PTC-, LDR-, and VDR- components

2. Coils and condensators:
- principles of alternating current
- reactance of a coil and condensator
- condensators in practice
- coil-condensator applications

3. Semiconductors
- diode and its function
- Zener-diode, LED
- examples of diode applications
- transistors and their function
- examples of transistor applications

4. Integrated circuits
- operational amplifiers
- microcontrollers

The student builds an electronic device and studies its components.

Qualifications

Electricity
Magnetism
Wave Motion and Oscillations

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student understands the purpose of using various electronics components.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student understands the purpose of using various electronics components, and can analyze their behaviour in a simple electronic circuit.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student understands the purpose of using various electronics components, and can analyze their behaviour in a simple electronic circuit, and can plan simple circuit designs.