8115 Physics 1, Part 2: Electrical Engineering (EEng), WS2023/24

Course: 8115 Physics: Mechanics, Electricity and Magentism, WS2023/24, Part 2: “Electrical Engineering”
Course ID: 8115_2 (part of 8115)
(Old Course Number: EE_1.08)

Structure of 8115 (aka EE_1.08) Physics: Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism

We group the topics “electricity” and “magnetism” together under the term electrical engineering.
This course consists of two course parts:

  1. Mechanics (8115_01) and
  2. Electrical Engineering (8115_02).

The two course parts are conducted separately by two lecturers.

Course Part General Topic Abbreviation Course ID Lecturer
Part 1 Mechanics Mech 8115_1 Dr. Irmgard Buder
Part 2 Electrical Engineering EEng 8115_2 Clein Sarmiento

Exam and Grading

The two course parts form one module with one exam.

You will pass the module with 50 points in total.

The scores are distributed as follows:

Part Written / Lab Max Achievable Points
Mech written exam 50
EEng written exam 40
EEng lab exercises 10
Max total 100

Examples:

Examples for Points Leading to Passed
Mech EEng EEng Lab Total Pass/Fail
50 0 0 50 pass
20 20 10 50 pass
0 40 10 50 pass
25 25 0 50 pass
30 15 5 50 pass

EEng Lecture

Every Thursday

* Lecture Room: 01 01 105
* Lecture Time: 08:15 - 9:45 and 10:00 - 11:30

Lecture

The lectures will be given live on campus. At least the EEng part will be streamed, recorded and uploaded for later offline access.
The links to the videos are shared on the Discord channel of this course.

Relationship with other Courses

The course EEng is used to lay the foundations for the following courses:

  1. (EE_2.03) Physics 2: Thermodynamics, Radiation, Heat Transfer,
  2. (EE_3.02) Energy Technology,
  3. (EE_4.03) Applied Measurement and Control

Lab Teams, Lab Groups and Lab Exercises

Each student can earn 10 points max by completing the lab experiments.

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Literature and Resources

Lab Guidelines

Preparation for the Students


If you are not prepared perfectly you will not be able to gain max. points!

Topics of EEng

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Sessions

No Day Date Time Room Topic Notes /
Keywords
Introduction, motivation: PV cells, I-V curve, charge, current, grav. pot. energy
voltage, circuit, Ohm's law
electrical power: burn 10 Ohms, Jupyter notebook: lin. model fitting
THU 2023-12-06 08:15 —
11:30
01-01-105 Kirchhoff's laws, LTspice, potentiometer, LDR, capacitor
FRI 2023-12-07 13:00 —
16:00
Charging and discharging of capacitor, charge, current, differential equations, PWM
TUE 2023-12-12 09:00 —
13:00
Waves, semiconductors, PN-junction, diodes, internal photoeffect, photovoltaics
THU 2023-12-14 Photovoltaics, diodes, equivalent circuit models of PV cells, partial shading, bypass diodes, LTspice modeling
THU 2023-12-21 Capacitive reactance, impedance, complex numbers
THU 2024-01-11 Inductive reactance, impedance, RC circuit, RLC circuit
THU 2024-01-18 Alternating Currect (AC) Circuits
THU 2024-01-25 Faraday's Law of Induction
Week Date Topic Link