LABORATORY OF PHYSICS II

Fisica LABORATORY OF PHYSICS II

0512600015
DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA "E.R. CAIANIELLO"
EQF6
PHYSICS
2017/2018

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2016
ANNUALE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
756LESSONS
448LAB
Objectives
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING :
THE AIM OF THE COURSE IS TO ACQUIRE THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE THEORY OF THE RESPONSE OF LOW-FREQUENCY PASSIVE LINEAR CIRCUITS AND OF THE INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION PHENOMENA OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
THE PURPOSE OF THE COURSE IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPABILITY OF ANALYZING THE RESPONSE OF LINEAR CIRCUITS BY SIMPLE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS USING ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTATION


Prerequisites
ANALYSIS OF LINEAR ALGEBRAIC SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM, ELEMENTS OF ERROR ANALYSIS.
Contents
LECTURES: 48 HOURS
LABORATORY: 72 HOURS
1) ANALYSIS OF LINEAR NETWORK
A. SUMMARY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM (ELECTRIC FIELDS, ELECTRIC POTENTIAL, MAGNETIC FIELDS, INDUCED ELECTROMOTIVE FORCES); PASSIVE ELEMENTS OF A LINEAR CIRCUIT (RESISTANCE, CAPACITY, INDUCTANCE);
B. KIRCHOFF'S LAWS;
C. IDEAL AND REAL CURRENT AND VOLTAGE SUPPLIES; OUTPUT RESISTANCE;
D. TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A NETWORK, MESHE AND NODAL ANALYSIS;
E. ANALYSIS OF A CIRCUIT CURRENTS, NODAL ANALYSIS, MESH ANALYSIS, SOLUTIONS OF SYSTEMS OF LINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS;
F. THEVENIN'S AND NORTON THEOREMS;
G. ANALOG INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING CURRENT AND VOLTAGE: OHMMETER AND WHEATSTONE BRIDGE: SENSITIVITY, ERROR SENSITIVITY. VOLT-AMPEROMETRIC METHOD FOR MEASURING THE ELECTRIC RESISTANCE. ANALOG OSCILLOSCOPE: CATHODE RAY TUBE, SENSITIVITY, TIME BASE, TRIGGER.
H. BASICS OF DIGITAL ELECTRONICS: BINARY REPRESENTATION, COMBINATORIAL AND SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS; AMPLIFIERS WITH FEEDBACK, OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS; A / D CONVERTERS AND D / A;
I. PERTURBATIONS INDUCED BY EQUIPMENTS IN MEASURING ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES;
L. BASICS ON NOISE AND MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS;
M. RESPONSE OF A LINEAR CIRCUIT TO TIME-DEPENDENT GENERATORS: GENERAL SOLUTION OF A LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION, INITIAL CONDITIONS, TRANSIENT E NON TRANSIENT PHENOMENA, SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; HARMONICS IN NON-LINEAR ELEMENTS;
N. RC, RL AND RLC CIRCUITS: RESPONSE TO A VOLTAGE STEP AND TO A SQUARE VOLTAGE WAVE;
O. STADY STATE RESPONSE OF A LINEAR CIRCUIT TO HARMONIC EXCITATIONS: COMPLEX REPRESENTATION, STATIONARY SOLUTIONS, COMPLEX IMPEDANCE: RC CIRCUIT FOR HIGH AND LOW FREQUENCY FILTERS, RESONANT RLC CIRCUIT;
P. MEAN POWER IN SINUSOIDAL REGIME, EFFECTIVE VALUES;
Q. RESPONSE OF A LINEAR CIRCUIT TO PERIODIC EXCITATIONS, FOURIER SERIES, RANGE OF APPLICABILITY, FOURIER COEFFICIENTS, APPLICATIONS;
R. FOURIER TRANSFORM, APPLICABILITY CONDITIONS, RESPONSE OF A LINEAR CIRCUIT BY MEANS OF FOURIER TRANSFORM;
S. LAPLACE TRANSFORM, APPLICABILITY CONDITIONS, INVERSE TRANSFORM; RESPONSE OF LINEAR CIRCUITS BY FOURIER TRANSFORM;
T. RESPONSE OF A LINEAR CIRCUIT TO A PULSE, CONVOLUTION INTEGRAL, THE TRANSFER FUNCTION;
U. PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN TRANSMISSION LINES;
V. MICROWAVE GENERATION AND GUIDES;
Z. INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES.


LABORATORY ACTIVITIES
1. MEASUREMENT OF THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE OF A VOLTAGE GENERATOR;
2. TEST OF THE THEVENIN THEOREM;
3. INPUT RESISTANCE OF A VOLTMETER AND AN AMMETER;
4. VOLT-AMPEROMETRIC METHOD FOR RESISTANCES MEASUREMENTS;
5. RC SERIES CIRCUIT: STUDY OF THE RESPONSE TO A SQUARE WAVE;
6. RC SERIES CIRCUIT: STUDY OF STATIONARY RESPONSE TO A SINE WAVE;
7. RL SERIES CIRCUIT: STUDY OF THE RESPONSE TO A 'SQUARE WAVE;
8. RL SERIES CIRCUIT: STUDY OF THE STEADY-STATE RESPONSE TO A SINE WAVE ;
9. RLC SERIES CIRCUIT: STUDY OF THE RESPONSE TO A SQUARE WAVE;
10. RLC SERIES CIRCUIT: STATIONARY RESPONSE TO A SINUSOIDAL EXCITATION;
11. RC SERIES CIRCUIT: STUDY OF THE RESPONSE TO A VOLTAGE PULSE;
12. TRANSMISSION LINES; RESONANT MODES OF A CAVITY AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES;
13. FIGURES DIFFRACTION AND INTERFERENCE FROM SLITS AND GRATINGS IN VISIBLE LIGHT.
Teaching Methods
THE PHYSICS LABORATORY II COURSE TAKES PLACE IN PART WITH THEORETICAL LECTURES, AND IN PART WITH PRACTICAL LABORATORY WORK IN WHICH STUDENTS, USING THE AVAILABLE INSTRUMENTS, WILL PERFORM THE PLANNED EXPERIENCES.
Verification of learning
THE EVALUATION OF THE CAPABILITY OF EXPERIMENTALLY ANALYSE PASSIVE LINEAR CIRCUITS IS CARRIED OUT BY SUPERVISING THE EXECUTION OF THE EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT IN THE LABORATORY AND BY EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS CONCERNING THE EXPERIMENTS THEMSELVES. MOREOVER THE ORAL EXAMINATION VERIFIES THE ACQUIRED SKILLS REGARDING THE THEORETICAL BASES OF THE LABORATORY TESTS.
Texts
TEXTBOOKS:
M.E. VAN VALKENBURG: NETWORK ANALYSIS, PRENTICE HALL
P. MAZZOLDI, M. NIGRO, C.VOCI, ELEMENTI DI FISICA ELETTROMAGNETISMO-ONDE, EDISES.
M. SEVERI, INTRODUZIONE ALLA ESPERIMENTAZIONE FISICA, ZANICHELLI.

OTHER: NOTES, SLIDES, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENTS : MULTIMETERS, DC AND AC VOLTAGE SUPPLIES, OSCILLOSCOPES, PC.
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THE ATTENDANCE OF THE COURSE, ALTHOUGH NOT MANDATORY, IS ALMOST ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, ESPECIALLY FOR LABORATORY ACTIVITIES.
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