PHYS 395 - ELECTRONICS

Professor: Douglas M. Gingrich (office: room 208 in Centre for Subatomic Research)

Calendar Description: DC and AC circuits; filter, diode, and transistor circuits; operational amplifiers, digital circuits, data acquisition, and computers. Lab component of the course provides practical experience in electronics.

Prerequisites: PHYS281 or PHYS230 (E&M), MATH120 (algebra), and MATH215 (calculus). Credit in PHYS292 or PHYS294 or PHYS295 (labs) is strongly recommended.

Schedule: first term only

  • 3 hours of lectures per week
  • 3 hours of lab work per week

Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:50; September 3-Dec. 3 (13 weeks); room P113

Grading System:

  • 1/3 final examination (December 7-18)
  • 1/3 lab work
  • 1/6 mid-term test (October 20?)
  • 1/6 problems sets (about 1 per 2 weeks)

Labs:

  1. room 338; 14:00-16:50; starts Tuesday September 8 or Thursday September 10
  2. lab manuals available at bookstore
  3. two hard cover log books required (partly used books O.K.)
  • introduction to circuits (1 week) fill in the blanks in lab.
  • AC circuits and resonance (3 weeks) formal write-up
  • diode and transisters (2 weeks) fill in the blanks
  • operational amplifiers (3 weeks) formal write-up
  • digital circuits (2 weeks) oral test

Problems:

  • due in class or put in box at entrance of Centre for Subatomic Research
  • solutions posted on 3'rd floor south east in Physics building
  • Marker (me?)

Textbook: none (lecture notes available at bookstore)

WWW: http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~gingrich/phys395/phys395.html

Topics:

  • DC circuits and AC circuits
  • filters circuits
  • diode circuits
  • transister circuits
  • operational amplifiers
  • digital circuits
  • data acquisition
  • computers

Goals: appreciation of how electronics is used in research

HR

Douglas M. Gingrich (gingrich@ualberta.ca)