Course Details
Special Physics
Academic Year 2024/25
CB052 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction: Personal computer (PC) in measuring. Asset in the area of economy and quality.
2. Sensors and converters: pressure sensors, temperature sensors, mechanical stress sensors, changes in length sensors, volume changes sensors.
3. Input and Output communication ports and systems: Universal serial bus (USB). Interface card GPIB (IEEE488).
4. Introduction to the measuring system GPIB: Basic requirement. GPIB interface bus description. Instructions of GPIB interface bus.
5. Basic GPIB instruments overview: Agilent, other selected instruments with GPIB.
6. Instructions of the selected instruments - 1st part: Oscilloscopes of the Agilent 54600 series.
7. Instructions of the selected instruments - 2nd. part: Programmable Power Source of the Agilent E363xA series. Digital Multimeter Agilent 34401A.
8. Programming of the interface card GPIB: Instructions of the GPIB interface card Agilent. Examples of the units visa_simul and instrument. Example of the measuring program.
9. Python programming introduction.
10. Python programming by use instruction for Agilent instrument control.
11. Excursion, selected equipment performance.
12. Practice exercise: Preparation, debugging and testing of the particular program from the civil engineering.
13. Practice exercise: Preparation, debugging and testing of the particular program from the civil engineering.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction, subject and content, exercise plan, basic information
2. Sample of the sensors according to their category. Practice working with sensors in groups.
3. Presentation of the measuring setup for the selected tasks (GPIB, coaxial connection, PC-devices, USB module quido, Agilent), work in a little groups.
4. Presentation of the measuring unit for other selected tasks, work in a little groups.
5. Calibration of the thermistor. Calibrating of the thermal diode. Implementation of automated unit, work in groups on tasks partially prepared by the teacher.
6. Computer programming of the automated tasks in the language Python.
7. Programming of the tasks (named in the 9th week exercise) in the Python language, debugging using software simulation unit "visa_simul".
8. Programming tasks of 11th week tasks in the Python language, debugging using software simulation units "visa_simul".
9. RI characteristics measurement of diodes (group A). Measuring UI characteristics of the resistance (group B). Implementation of automated measuring workplace, job involvement.
10. Measurements in groups of the tasks (named in the 9th week exercise), using the programs of the 7th week exercise, using the unit "visa_simul". Measurement report.
11. Measuring of the UI characteristics of the diodes (group A). Measuring RI characteristics of the resistance (group B). Implementation of automated measuring workplace, job involvement.
12. Measurements in groups of the tasks (named in the 11th week exercise), using the programs of the 8th week exercise, simulation width the unit "visa_simul". Measurement report.
13. Evaluation protocols. Credit