PHYSICS 326/331

Electronics and Instrumentation

Electronics Laboratory

Final Exam

• Thurs, August 4, Meet at 12 noon (instead of 8:30 am) Exam will be in P8445b (Physics seminar room).
• Sample Final
• Sample Midterm

Textbooks:

• Electronic Principles 6th Ed., A. Malvino, Glencoe-McGraw-Hill, 1999
  Earlier editions may be acceptable
  
  • See Malvino's website containing animations, tests and problems relating to the Electronic Principles textbook, as well as philsophical anecdotes, jokes, and other ramblings.
    
• Recommended: The Art of Electronics
  Author: Horowitz and Hill
  Publisher: Cambridge, 1989
  
  • Here's a website for the Art of Electronics

Introductiory Handouts

• Physics 326: Electronics and Instrumentation
• Physics 331: Electronics Laboratory
• Introduction to the Labs

Review AC Circuits

Powerpoint slides

COURSE OUTLINE and associated lab scripts:

1. Introduction to Equipment and AC circuit review, Lab 1, Notes
2. Diodes, Lab 2, Notes
3. Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) fundamentals, Lab 3, Notes
4. BJT Amplifiers, Lab 4
5. Field Effect Transistors and circuits, Lab 5, Notes
6. Operational Amplifiers, Lab 6, Notes
7. Negative Feedback Op Amp Circuits, Lab 7, Notes
8. Positive Feedback Op Amp Circuits, Lab 8
9. Voltage Regulators, Lab 9, ppt notes
10. Logic Gates, Lab 10

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Assignments (Phys326)

1. Assignment 1 Due Wed., May 11, 2005.
2. Assignment 3 (well, actually it's assignment 2) Due Wed., June 1 Mon., June 6, 2005.
3. Assignment 3 (YES, this is the real assignment 3) Due Mon., June 27, 2005. solutions
4. Assignment 4 Due Tuesday, August 2, 2005, 10 am. solutions

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