Electrical Measurements

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Lecturer:

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Department of Measurement

Synopsis:

Requirements:

Physics 1, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Measurement using laboratory oscilloscope

2. Frequency dependence of AC voltmeters

3. Measurement on the voltage divider

4. Measurement of low currents

5. Measuring amplifiers

6. Influence of the waveform of measured voltage on the meter reading

7. Measuring rectifier

8. Power and power factor measurement for single phase

9. Measurement of frequency and period time using a counter

10. Demonstration of signal sampling

11. Digital storage oscilloscope and arbitrary waveform generator

12. Measurement of low resistances

13. Digital measurement system using GPIB

14. Digital impedance and admittance meter

15. Measurement of amplitude permeability

16. Unbalanced Wheatstone bridge

17. Measurement of the leakage magnetic field

Individual work

Study Objective:

To acquaint students with methods of measurement of electric, magnetic and selected physical quantities and used instruments including principles of their correct application and accuracy estimation.

Study materials:

[1] Placko, D.: Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Measurement, ISTE 2007, ISBN 1 905209 39 8

[2] Northrop, R.B.: Introduction to Instrumentation and Measurements, CRC 2005, 0-8493-3773-9

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Electronics and Communications 2026 (compulsory course in the program)