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Faculty of Engineering - The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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ERG Coded Courses<br />

Course Description<br />

ERG Coded Courses 1<br />

(Unless otherwise specified, all are 3-unit term courses <strong>of</strong> three hours <strong>of</strong> lecture and<br />

one hour <strong>of</strong> tutorial per week.)<br />

ERG1010<br />

<strong>Engineering</strong> Electronics<br />

This course introduces the basic foundations <strong>of</strong> electronics and is suitable for Secondary<br />

six entrants in engineering and science. Introduction: review historical developments<br />

in electronics, electric current and potential, Ohm’s law, Kirch<strong>of</strong>f’s circuit laws applied<br />

to resistor networks; Electrostatics: electric field, Coulomb’s Law, capacitors,<br />

electrical reactance, examples <strong>of</strong> electrostatic devices and machines; Magnetism and<br />

magnetic force on moving charges: Ampere’s Law, Biot-Savart Law, cyclotron, Hall<br />

effect; Electromagnetism: Faraday’s law, inductance, transformers; resonant circuits;<br />

Examples <strong>of</strong> electromagnetic devices and machines: sensors and actuators, motors,<br />

power generators and three phase power transmission. Introduction to electronic<br />

instrumentation and measurement circuits.<br />

ERG1800<br />

Modern Information Technology<br />

2 U; 2 Lect. 1 Tut.<br />

This course introduces the latest information technology to students <strong>of</strong> all disciplines.<br />

<strong>The</strong> objective is to enable the students to comprehend the extensive and rapidly<br />

changing information technology knowledge at an executive level. Topics will include,<br />

but not limited to, microprocessors, s<strong>of</strong>tware, computer graphics, multimedia, Internet,<br />

electronic commerce, electronic publishing, etc. (Not for <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Faculty</strong> students.)<br />

ERG1810<br />

<strong>Engineering</strong> Laboratory I<br />

1 U; 4 Lab.<br />

ERG2011<br />

Advanced <strong>Engineering</strong> Mathematics (Syllabus A)<br />

Vector calculus: vector space; grad, div and curl; curvilinear coordinates; line and<br />

surface integrals; Green’s theorem, divergence theorem, and Stoke’s theorem. First<br />

order differential equations: linear, separable, exact and homogeneous equations;<br />

existence and uniqueness <strong>of</strong> solutions. Second order differential equations: linear<br />

independence; reduction <strong>of</strong> order; homogeneous equations; nonhomogeneous problem;<br />

series solutions. Partial differential equations: wave equation. Properties <strong>of</strong> Laplace<br />

transform and convolution integral. Fourier series, even and odd functions, Fourier<br />

transform and its properties.<br />

ERG2012<br />

Advanced <strong>Engineering</strong> Mathematics (Syllabus B)<br />

Complex variables: complex number, analytic functions, complex functions, power<br />

series and convergence tests. Linear algebra: matrices, systems <strong>of</strong> linear equations<br />

and solutions, determinants and rank, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Numerical<br />

integration and differentiation, numerical methods in linear algebra. Basic concept<br />

in probability and statistics.

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