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| Date | Lecture | Reading | Homework and Labs | Slides and Reviews |
| Tu 8/29 | SECTION 1: DC Lecture 1 - Current, Voltage, Ohm's Law, Power, Kirchoff's Laws, safety. |
Scherz 2.1-2.19 (2.4, 2.8 optional); Shaum Ch 1-3. |
No lab or homework this week, just familiarize yourself with the Falstad Virtual Circuit Website and watch the short videos below. Virtual Circuit (falstad) Website Virtual Circuit Videos (don't worry if you don't understand the circuit theory yet...)
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| Th 8/31 | Lecture 2 - Ideal voltage and current sources, series/parallel, ground, voltage and current dividers, real voltage and current sources, , more about power resistivity, potentiometers. | |||
| Tu 9/5 | Lecture 3 - Simplifying resistor networks, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, superposition. | Shaum Ch 4-5. | Lab 1 - Using the breadboard meter and soldering iron. Batteries and resistor networks. |
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| Th 9/7 | Lecture 4 - More superposition, meshes, galvinometer, Wheatstone bridge, regulated power supply. | Scherz 2.20-2.25 Shaum Ch 8-9 |
Section 1: DC Last Year's Slides |
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| Tu 9/12 | SECTION 2: AC Lecture 5- AC circuits, capacitors and inductors, magic of sinusoids. |
Scherz 2.26-2.27 Shaum Ch 10-11 (disregard Phasors on p. 221) |
Lab 2 - Potentiometers and the Wheatstone bridge. |
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| Th 9/14 | Lecture 6 - Complex exponentials, Euler's Identity, phasors, building sinusoids from pairs of phasors. | Complex Algebra Reviews: Hsu Nearing |
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| Tu 9/19 | Lecture 7 - Complex impedance, Phasor notation, superposition of phasors and thus sinusoids |
Scherz 2.30-2.30.1 (Input/Output Impedance), 2.33 - p.216 (2-port filters) | Lab 3 -
Measuring Capacitor Discharge Tektronix Scope Manual | |
| Th 9/21 | Lecture 8 - Fourier series and transform, frequency repsonse of systems. Fourier Series Demo |
Scherz 2.35 (Fourier Series) |
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| Tu 9/26 | Lecture 9 - RC Filters, decibels, Bode Plots, RMS values, AC power, transformers. | Scherz 2.32 (Decibels), | Lab 4 - Audio Amplifier | Section 2: AC Last Year'sSlides |
| Th 9/28 | SECTION 3: Non-Linear and Sensors Lecture 10 - Non-linear components, diodes, triodes, bipolar transistors. |
Scherz 4.1-4.2 (Diodes), 4.3.2 (biopolar transistors). | ||
| Tu 10/3 |
Lecture 11 - Gain, switches, relays, buzzers, latches, flip-flops, thermistors, photosensors, LEDs. | Scherz 5-5.3.4 (LEDs), 5.4-5.7, 5.9 (photosensors). |
Lab 5 - RC Filters Worksheet |
Section 3: NonLinear & Sensors Last Year'sSlides |
| Th 10/5 | SECTION 4: Op Amps Lecture 12 - Operational amplifiers intro, comparators, thermoregulation hysteresis. |
Scherz 8 (Op Amps) | ||
| Tu 10/10 | EXAM 1 through Lab 5, Sections 1-2 Equations |
Lab 6 - Diodes and Transistors | ||
| Th 10/12 | Lecture 13 - Full Operational amplifiers. | |||
| Tu 10/17 | Lecture 14 - More op amps, sinusoidal oscillator, Laplace transform, current-to-voltage and voltage-to-current converters, non-linear op amp circuits. | Lab 7 - Comparators, Photoresistors, Thermistors, and Hysteresis | ||
| Th 10/19 | Lecture 15- More op amps differential amps, H-bridge amps, examples of inverse impedance circuits. | Section 4: Op Amps Last Year'sSlides |
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| Tu 10/24 | SECTION 5: Digital Lecture 16 - Intro to Digital. Boolean logic, gates. Binary, hexadecimal, ASCII, adders, serial and parallel, flip-flops, shift registers, ripple counters. |
Scherz 12.1-12.3, (digital), 12.6.3, 12.6.4 (flip-flops). | Lab 8 - Op Amps and Analog Computers | |
| Th 10/26 | Lecture 17 - State machines, synchronous counters, encoders, decoders, memory, CPU, operational codes, computer architecture, operational codes, programming languages and environments. | |||
| Tu 10/31 | Lecture 18 - More computers: hardware, FETs, MOSFETs, CMOS, FPGA, DSP, A/D, D/A, Digital dynamic range and noise, Nyquist, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing. | Schrertz 4.3.4 (MOSFETs) | Make-up Lab. | |
| Th 11/2 | Section 5: Digital Last Year'sSlides |
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| Tu 11/7 | EXAM 2 Cumulative, through Lab 8, Sections 1-4 |
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| Th 11/9 | SECTION 6: Other Lecture 19 - High Frequency, shielding, waves, cables, characteristic impedance, impedance matching, radio, antennae, microwave, Huygens' Principle, field paterns, phased arrays, lasers. |
Schertz 3.1.5 | ||
| Tu 11/14 | Lecture 20- Voltages in biology and chemistry, batteries, thermocouples, tribolelectirc effect, Nernst equation and action potentials, biological sensing of electric and magnetic fields. | Schertz 3.2 |
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| Th 11/16 |
Lecture 21 - Piezoelectric transducers, strain gages, variations on the light bulb, radiation detectors, recorded sound, microphones, loudspeakers, radio modulation and demodulation. |
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| Su 11/19 - Su 11/26 | Thanksgiving Recess | |||
| Tu 11/28 | Lecture 22 - Magnetic sensors, linear actuators, motors, MEMS, distance measurement, optical encoders. | Lab 9 - Digital Circuits: Flip Flops, One-Shot, Shift Register, Ripple Counter Homework 9 - Virtual Digital Circuits |
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| Tu 12/5 | Lab 10 - MOSFETs, static electricity | |||
| Th 12/7 | Stetten talk on Deep Submersible Alvin, the Telemetric Egg, etc. Non on Exam. | Section 6: Other Last Year'sSlides |
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| Mo 12/11 - Fr 12/15 | Final Exam Cumulative, All Labs and Homework Sections 1-6 Equations |