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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Electrical Measurements

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 450-0501/07
Abbreviation EMBc
Course title Electrical Measurements
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ludvík Koval, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Accuracy and error of measurement. Errors of analog and digital instruments, errors of direct as well as indirect measurements, random errors, total measurement error.
Inharmonic waveforms of electrical quantities. Representation of periodical waveforms using Fourier transformation; form, crest and distortion factors.
Measuring converters.
Analog and digital measuring instruments.

Analog and digital osciloscopes.
Chart recording instruments.
Frequency analyzers.
Virtual measuring instruments, GPIB, RS 232, VXI buses, programming developments.
Methods for measuring active electrical quantities (voltage, current, power, frequency, period, time intervals).
Methods for measuring passive electrical quantities (resistor, inductance, capacitance, dissipation factor, quality factor, impedance).
Magnetic measurements. Measuring of ferromagnetic characteristics, display of hysteresis loops.
Disturbing effects and their limitation.


Laboratories:
Measuring of voltage and current.

Measuring of passive components.
Impact of frequency and waveform shape on measuring instrument's indication.
Analog osciloscopes.
Measuring of single-phase power.
Measuring of powers across unbalanced three-phase load.
Measuring of frequency, period and phase shift.
Magnetic measurements.
Virtual measuring instruments.
Digital osciloscope and its control over GPIB bus.

Practical test measurement.


Projects:
10 protokols

Literature

Velička, R.: Electrical Measurements (Basic Course),Ostrava 2007
Klátil, P.: Electrical Measurements (Hands-on Training), Ostrava 2007

Advised literature

Lenk, John D.: Electonic Testing Handbook, USA 1994, by McGraw-Hill Inc.