Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Informatică
Programul de studii: Informatică - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MMF0002	Electrical	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L+P	Category	Status	
4	2+0+2+0	speciality	optional	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
LIBAL Andras	Ph.D.	Lect.	Computer Systems	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
The objective of the course is to teach students the basics of electrical circuits, circuit building and the fundamental building blocks that electrical circuits are made of. Starting from basic electricity (charge, electric fields, electric current) we proceed to define resistors, capacitors, inductors, network analysis, we discuss battery technology, filters, stepper motors, operational amplifiers and timer circuits.	

IV. Course contents
The course covers material from basic concepts of electricity , electric charge, current, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws, Norton and Thevenin equivalencies, network analysis, capacitors and inductances, discussion of AC circuits to solid state physics, diodes, transistors and operational amplifiers, going from analogue electricity to digital electronics. The course is designed to computer science majors and accentuates the computer science hardware applications, measuring devices, battery technology, current and voltage sources, filters, stepper motors, operational amplifiers and counter and timer circuits.	

V. Bibliography
1. Tony R. Kuphaldt: Lessons in Electric Circuits 
2. John Bird: Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology
3. Bezhad Razavi: Fundamentals of Microelectronics	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks
1. Basic concepts of electricity, Electric charge, electric current, insulators, semiconductors, conductors
2. Electric potential, energy, Resistors, Ohm’s law, electric measuring devices
3. Kirchoff’s laws, electric network analysis
4. Norton and Thevenin equivalences
5. Battery technology, current and voltage sources
6. Capacitors, Review of magnetism, Inductances, RC, RL circuits
7. Review of waves, AC circuits, RLC circuits, resonance, high frequency effects
8. Review of acoustics, electric signals, oscilloscope
9. Filters and electric signal processing
10. Electric transformers, stepper motors
11. Review of solid state physics, diode, transistor (from bipolar to MOSFET), optical elements in electric circuits (photodiode, photoresist) 
12. Operational amplifiers and applications
13. Operational amplifiers and applications
14. Counter and timer circuits	

VII. Didactic methods used
Presentation, problem solving (individual and in class), homework, hands-on laboratory experiments, lab reports, individual circuit building project	

VIII. Assessment
60% on the activities during the year (homework, lab reports)
40% final exam (written, problem solving)
10% seminar activity bonus	

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Lect. LIBAL Andras, Ph.D.