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Third-year subjects, where electronics begins: circuit theory, electromagnetic fields, signals, automatic control, electronic devices, technical physics and structural mechanics.
116 articles
Linear, circular and elliptical polarisation, reflection and transmission coefficients with proof, anti-reflection coatings, standing waves and the standing wave ratio.
Sinusoidal steady state and complex permittivity, the Helmholtz equation with proof, the plane wave and wave impedance, power, lossy materials and skin…
Differential form and constitutive relations, the continuity equation, boundary conditions with proof, the perfect conductor, Poynting's theorem and energy travelling in the…
Amplitude modulation and its spectrum, FM and Carson's rule, digital modulations and QAM constellations, OFDM, Shannon channel capacity with examples and the…
Signal-to-noise ratio, deciding between two symbols, error probability, the matched filter with proof, BPSK and Eb/N0, error-correcting codes, Nyquist pulses and the…
Stationarity and ergodicity, power spectral density, passing through a filter with proof, white noise, thermal noise, kT/C noise with proof, shot and…
Conditional probability, Bayes' theorem with proof and an example, mean and variance, the Gaussian distribution and the Q function, sums of independent…
The convolution sum, difference equations, transfer function and frequency response, poles and zeros, the moving average, the first-order recursive filter and stability…
The uniform quantiser, quantisation noise power and SNR with proof, effective number of bits, μ-law and A-law, dithering, oversampling and noise shaping.
Ideal sampling, the Nyquist-Shannon theorem with proof and sinc reconstruction, aliasing with examples, the anti-aliasing filter, oversampling and undersampling.
