Electrical & Electronic Systems

Lecture 02 by Waqas Anwar

Course Code: EE-250 Course Page: bit.ly/ee-250 Course Email: ee-250@hotmail.com

System Inputs and Outputs

Systems may often be described simply by their inputs, their output and the relationship between them

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 Nature of inputs/outputs will depend on where we draw our system boundaries. For example:

 By changing the system boundary we change the nature of the inputs and outputs

 Components that interact with the outside world are termed sensors and actuators
in the previous example the microphone represents a sensor in the previous example the loudspeaker represents an actuator

We will look at sensors and actuators in more detail in later lectures

Physical Quantities & Electrical Signals

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The world about us is characterised by a number of physical properties or quantities

e.g. temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.

Physical quantities may be continuous or discrete. Continuous quantities change smoothly and can take an infinite number of values Discrete quantities change abruptly from one value to another.
most real-world quantities are continuous many man-made quantities are discrete

 It is often convenient to represent physical quantities by electrical signals. These can also be continuous or discrete Continuous signals are often described as analogue

 Discrete signals are often described as digital signals

Many digital signals take only two values and are referred to as binary signals

Assignment # 1
Title:
Electronics in the field of Textiles

Last Date of Submission:

September 23, 2013

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