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Introduction to the principles and techniques of the detailed design of the constituent subsystems and related support systems for an aircraft/spacecraft. Aircraft/spacecraft systems engineering: aircraft/spacecraft programme phases; system engineering techniques; design drivers; trade-offs and budgets. Reliability analysis. Case studies. Prerequisite(s) or concurrent(s): AAE 401, AAE 407 or consent of instructor.

Review of single-stage transistor amplifiers using BJT and FET equivalent circuits and calculation of current gain, voltage gain, power gain, input and output impedance. Operational amplifiers: description, parameters and applications. Feedback, broadband and narrowband amplifies. Power amplifiers. Voltage and current stabilizing circuits. Voltage amplifiers, multi storage amplifiers using BJTs and FETs.

Review of Microelectronic Devices: Diode, BJT, JFET, and MOSFET; Large-signal behaviour and Small-signal models; Single-Transistor Amplifiers: Common-emitter/source, common- base/gate, and common-collector/drain; Biasing, small-signal gain, input resistance, and output resistance; Circuit simulation using pSpice; Multi-Transistor Amplifiers: Cascade, differential, and cascade; Biasing, small-signal gain, input resistance, and output resistance; Frequency Response, Gain/phase plots and Analysis; Negative Feedback: Effects on gain, input resistance, output resistance, noise, distortion, and bandwidth; Inverting and non- inverting op amps; Passive Filters and Active Filters: Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-reject, First-, second-, and higher-order; Non-linear Circuits: Rectifiers and peak detectors, Sinusoidal oscillators, Mono and bi-stable multivibrators, Waveform generators.

Single-stage transistor amplifiers using BJT and FET Equivalent circuits and calculation of current gain, voltage gain, power gain, input and output impedance. Operational Amplifiers: Description, parameters and applications. Feedback, broadband and narrowband amplifiers. Power amplifiers. Voltage and current stabilizing circuits. Voltage amplifiers, multi-stage amplifiers using BJTs and FETs.

Single-stage transistor amplifiers using BJT and FET Equivalent circuits and calculation of current gain, voltage gain, power gain, input and output impedance. Operational Amplifiers: Description, parameters and applications. Feedback, broadband and narrowband amplifiers. Power amplifiers. Voltage and current stabilizing circuits. Voltage amplifiers, multi storage amplifiers using BJTs and FETs.

Single-stage transistor amplifiers using BJT and FET Equivalent circuits and calculation of current gain, voltage gain, power gain, input and output impedance. Operational Amplifiers: Description, parameters and applications. Feedback, broadband and narrowband amplifiers. Power amplifiers. Voltage and current stabilizing circuits. Voltage amplifiers, multi-stage amplifiers using BJTs and FETs.

Studies the relationship between technical and policy elements of the nuclear fuel cycle. Topics include uranium supply, enrichment, fuel fabrication, in-core reactivity and fuel management of uranium and other fuel types, used fuel reprocessing, and waste disposal. Presents principles of fuel cycle economics and the applied reactor physics of both contemporary and proposed thermal and fast reactors. Examine non-proliferation aspects, disposal of excess weapons plutonium, and transmutation of long-lived radioisotopes in spent fuel.

Crystallography, physics of X-rays, diffraction by crystalline materials, applications of X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction, and spectrometric analysis of materials.

Course Contents Types of livestock (for eggs, milk, meat, wool, etc). distribution of livestock in Nigeria. Livestock housing. Livestock processing equipment.

Antenna Systems: Review of Maxwell’s equations. Polarisation, polar diagrams, antenna gain, directivity, radiation resistance, impedance matching, effective length and capture area. Radiation by dynamic currents and charges, retarded potentials, the isotropic. Hertzian dipole, short and loop antenna, folded dipole antenna. Vertical and horizontal antennas, rhombic antenna, log-periodic antenna. Centre-fed linear antenna, linear arrays, radiation from diffraction gratings, Yagi-Uda arrays, integrated antennas. Microwave antenna, horn, parabolic reflectors, slot, and lenses. Field analysis of antennas. Transmitting-receiving system, reciprocity relations. Equivalent circuit of receiving antenna. Radar Systems: Principles of pulse radar and Doppler radar. Radar equation and system parameters. Components of radar systems. Study of a practical radar system. Radar signal detection. Synthetic aperture radar, tracking and scanning radar, HF (OTR) radar. Radio Wave Propagation: Electromagnetic waves, wave front, characteristic impedance of free space, reflection, refraction and diffraction. Ground waves and sky waves. The ionospheric layers, refractive index, virtual height, critical frequency and angle, maximum usable frequency, skip zone, skip distance, fading. VHF line of sight transmission. Tropospheric scattering communications. Relationship between transmitter power, antenna gains and received signal to noise in a free space radio link. VHF and microwave point-to-point link.