This course will discuss Ac signal sources, Oscillators, Selection of an Oscillator, Barkhausen criteria. Audio frequency oscillator (Wien bridge
oscillator, Phase shift oscillator), Radio frequency oscillator (Colpitts oscillator, Hartley oscillators), Crystal oscillator. Signal Generator, Sweep
frequency generator, Pulse and Square wave generator, Function Generator, Attenuators. Harmonic analysis, Frequency spectrum of waveform, Harmonic
distortion. Harmonic Analyzing Instruments, Harmonic distortion analyzer. Wave analyzer, spectrum analyzer. Transducers, classification of transducers,
Selecting of Transducer, Strain gauge transducer, Displacement Transducer, Capacitive Transducer, Inductive Transducers, Piezoelectric Transducer, Temperature
Transducers, Photoelectric Transducers. Data acquisition system, Signal conditioning circuit. Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital converters. Data
acquisition system and computerized control.
