Electronics
Electronics
UNIT-I: Electrostatics: Electric charges - Coulomb’s law - Electric field - Electric intensity and
electric potential - Relation between electric potential and intensity - Electric intensity and potential
due to a uniform charged conducting sphere at a point outside, on, and inside the conductor.
Electric dipole - Dipole moment - Intensity and potential due to a dipole - Statement and proof of
Gauss law - Application of Gauss law to uniformly charged solid sphere.
UNIT-II: Capacitors: Definition and unit of capacity - Capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor
- Effect of dielectric on capacity - Capacitors in series and parallel – Types of Capacitors. Energy
stored in a charged capacitors - Loss of energy on sharing of charges between two capacitors -
Force of attraction between plates of charged parallel plate capacitor - Kelvin’s attracted disc
electrometer - Measurement of potential and dielectric constant.
Magnetic Effect of Current: Biot-Savart’s law [ Force on a conductor carrying current placed in a
magnetic field - Principle, construction and theory of a moving coil ballistic galvanometer -
Measurement of figure of merit of B.G.
UNIT-IV: Diode circuits and power Supplies: Junction diode characteristics, Zener Diode
- Characteristics - Half and full wave rectifiers - Expression for efficiency and ripple factor -
Construction of low range power peak using diodes - Bridge rectifier - Filter circuits - Regulated
power supply using Zener diode - Clipper and Clamper using diodes.
Differentiator and integrator using resistor and capacitor.
Text Books
1. Electricity and Magnetism - M. Narayanamoorthi and Others, National Publishing Co.,
Chennai.
2. Electricity and Magnetism - R. Murugeshan, S. Chand & Co. Ltd., New Delhi, Revised
Edition, 2006.
3. Principles of Electronics - V.K. Mehta, S. Chand & Co., 4/e, 2001.
4. Basic Electronics - B.L. Theraja, S. Chand & Co., 4/e, 2001.
Reference Books
1. Electricity and Magnetism - Brijlal & Subrahmanyam, Ratan Prakashan Mandir, Agra.
2. Fundamentals of Electricity and Magnetism - B.D. Duggal & C.L. Chhabra, Shoban Lal
Nagin Chand & Co., Jallundur.
3. Physics, Vol. II - Resnick, Halliday & Krane, 5/e, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.
4. Basic Electronics - B. Grob, McGraw - hill, 6/e, NY, 1989.
5. Elements of Electronics - Bagde & Singh, S. Chand
SEMESTER-II
COURSE 3: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS
Practical Credits: 1 2 hrs/week
List of Experiments:
Lab experiments are to be done on breadboard and simulation software (using multisim) and output
values are to be compared and justified for variation.
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