PHYS 321 -- ----ELECTRONICS----- Spring 2008 -- Dr. Cremaldi

SYLLABUS

GRADESHEET

A simple spiral notebook is required for taking class notes and recording data.

January

Jan 16 (Wed)       Chapter-1   Resistance, Direct Current Circuits,  & Kirchoff's Laws   HW0   (one week rule)

Jan 23 (Wed)      Chapter-1   Thevenin's Theorem    Exp #1      HW1: #1, #3, #6, #13, #18, #19  (one week rule)

                                           Tee Attenuator

Jan 28 (Mon)       Chapter-2 T Capacitors and Inductors       HW2: #2, #3, #6  (one week rule)

Jan 30 (Wed)      Chapter2:  Capacitors and Inductors   

Feb 4 (Mon)     Chapter3: Alternating Current Circuits I    Complex Numbers      HW3: #11, #15, #17, #24

Feb 6  (Wed)     Chapter3: Alternating Current Circuits I    Low and High Pass Filters    Passive Filters.xls     RLC_Calculator

Feb 11  (Mon)   Chapter4: Alternating Current Circuits II    Impedance Matching   HW4 #2, #3, #9, #12 (one week rule) 

Feb 13 (Wed)   Chapter4: Alternating Current Circuits 2 (cont)

Feb 18(Mon)    Chapter4: Alternating Current Circuits 2  (cont)  Exp#5 Transformers

Feb 20 (Wed)   Mar 3(Mon)  Chapter 5: Diodes and Selected Applications(cont) HW5:  #2, #3., #6, #12  (one week rule) 

Feb 25 (Mon)   Chapter 5: Diodes Circuits

Feb 29 (Wed)    Diode Circuits Lab

Mar 3 (Mon)   Chapter8: Transistors  

Mar 5 (Wed) Chapter 8 Transistors (cont)  Diode Switch Lab 

Mar 10(Mon) BREAK WEEK

Mar 12(Wed) BREAK WEEK

Mar 17 (Mon)  Transistors (cont)  CommonEmitterAmpDesign-HW

Mar 19 (Wed)  No class

Mar 21 (Wed) Exam Chapters 1-4

Resistors in Series and Parallel
Kirchoff's Laws
Voltage Divider
Thevenin;s Theorem
Measurement of Output Impedance

Capacitors in series and parallel
LR Circuits
RC Circuits
Integrator and Differentiator

Kirchoff's AC Laws
RMS Voltage, Current. and Power
Reactance and Impedance
High Pass and Low pass filter
RLC Resonance Circuit and Q value
db scale

Transformer Equations
Transformer Impedance matching
Transmission Lines, Impedance, Speed, etc

Mar 24 (Mon)     Common Emitter Amplifier  , Emitter Follower     

Mar 26 (Wed)    Transistor Lab

Mar 28  (Friday)

Mar 31  (Mon) Chapter9 OP-AMPS              HW9:  #3, #4., #14*, #15 (one week rule)

April

Apr 2 (Wed)      OP-AMPs + Lab (cont)

Apr 4 (Fri)    

Apr 7 (Mon)    OP-amps

Apr 9 (Wed)   OP-amps

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

Apr 11 (Fri)    Chapter 11- Digital Basics - AND -OR -NAND -NOR Gates

Apr 14 (Mon) Chapter 11 -Digital Basics(cont)    HW11 #2, #5, #11, #14 (one week rule) Boolean Logic Problems

Apr 16 (Wed)   Chapter 12 -Digital Circuits - Digital Gate Lab

Apr 18 (Fri)    Exam Chapters 5,8,9 

- Chapter 5
Intrinsic and p-type/n-type semiconductors
Diode circuits,
Zener Diode Circuits,
Diode Clippers and Clamps,
Voltage regulation with diodes
- Chapter 8
Transitor operation,
Beta, Common Emitter Amp
Emitter Follower,
Transistor Switch, Feedback,
Frequency Response
- Chapter 9
Ideal Op Amp,
Inverting Amp, non-inverting Amp,
Follower, Integrator, Differentiator,
Difference Amp,
Buffer Amp
CMMR,
Frequency Response

Apr 21 (Mon)   Chapter 12 -Digital Circuits(cont) - Digital Gate Lab,  RST FLip-Flop

Apr 21 (Wed)  Chapter 13  Microprocessors and  HW13 #2   (due Wed Apr 30)

Apr 23 (Fri)    Chapter 14 Digital IO - ADCs , DACs

Apr 28 (Mon)  Chapter 14 (cont) 

Apr 30 (Wed)   EXAM III on Digital Electronics Chapters 11,12,13,14

-Chapter 11 - Digital Basics
Digital Gates and Truth Tables
Boolean Algebra
Logic Problems
Decimal/Binary/BDC/Octal/Hexidecimal
Logic Families
Standard, Open Collector. Tri-state Logic

-Chapter 12 - Digital Circuitry
Binary addition and subtraction
RS / RST / JK FF
Latch or One Shot
Decoders

-Chapter 13 Microprocessor Basics
Microprocessor Basics/bus/CPU/Memory/RAM/IOPorts

-Chapter 14 - Digital and Analogue I/O
Parallel/Serial/USB
DAC
ADC- Successive Approx / Parallel / Wilkinsn

May

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• Department of Physics and Astronomy