PHYS395 Course Outline

The table of contents of the course notes contains an up to date course outline.

Direct Current Circuits

• basic concepts
• schematic diagram
• Kirchoff's laws
• equivalent circuits

Alternating Current Circuits

• AC circuit elements
• circuit equations
• sinusoidal sources and the complex impedance
• resonance and the transfer function
• four-terminal networks
• single-term approximations of H

Filter Circuits

• filters and amplifiers
• log-log plots and decibels
• passive RC filters
• complex frequencies and the s-plane
• sequential RC filters
• passive RCL filters
• amplifier model

Diode Circuits

• energy levels
• the PN junction and the diode effect
• circuit applications of ordinary diodes

Transistor Circuits

• bipolar junction transistors
• the common emitter amplifier
• the common collector amplifier
• the common base amplifier
• the junction field effect transistor (JFET)
• JFET common source amplifier
• JFET common drain amplifier
• the insulated-gate field effect transistor
• power MOSFET circuits
• multiple transistor circuits

Operational Amplifiers

• open-loop amplifiers
• ideal amplifier approximation
• analysis using finite open-loop gain

Digital Circuits

• number systems
• boolean algebra
• logic gates
• combinational logic
• multiplexers and decoders
• Schmitt trigger
• the data bus
• two-state storage elements
• latches and unclocked flip-flops
• clocked flip-flops
• dynamically clocked flip-flops
• one-shots
• registers

Data Acquisition and Process Control

• transducers
• signal conditioning circuits
• oscillators
• digital-to-analog conversion
• analog-to-digital conversion
• time-to-digital conversion

Computers and Device Interconnection

• elements of the microcomputer
• 8-, 16-, or 32-bit busses