General class information
Syllabus html pdf
Grader
Austin Ziltz arziltz@email.wm.edu
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Week 01
Lecture 01 - Resistors and simple network analysis
- Syllabus
- DC Circuits Basics
- Voltage divider
presentation and handouts
lab manual
Week 02
Lecture 02 - Full network analysis.
- Kirchhoff's Laws
- Thevenin's and Norton's theorems
presentation and handouts
lab manual
Solutions
- Wheatstone bridge problem solution (courtesy of Austin Ziltz).
Week 03
Lecture 03 - Complex impedance.
- Capacitors
- Inductors
- Transformers
lab manual
- Skip the design exercise 3-3
Solutions
- DE 3-4 (RLC band-pass) solution (courtesy of Austin Ziltz).
Week 04
Lecture 04 - Filters.
- Power dissipation
- Fourier transform
- Transfer function and Bode plots
- Filters
- Transmission lines
presentation and handouts
lab manual (the last slide statement about impossibility of band-stop filter with R-C or R-L elements only is changed on 2012/04/16.)
Week 05
Lecture 05 - Diodes.
- Midterm exam notes
- Diodes
- Diodes applications
- Half-wave rectifier
- Full-wave rectifier
- Frequencies doubling and summing
presentation and handouts
lab manual
Week 06
Lecture 06 - Transistors.
- Bipolar junction Transistor (BJT)
- Simple rules for transistors circuits
- Constant current source
- Voltage controlled switch
- Emitter follower
presentation and handouts
lab manual
2N3904 transistor datasheet
Week 07
Lecture 07 - Transistors applications: AC amplifiers
- NPN and PNP emitter follower
- Push-Pull emitter follower
- AC emitter followers
- Common emitter (inverting) amplifier
presentation and handouts
lab manual
Week 08
Lecture 08 - Transistors: Field-effect transistors
- JFET and MOSFET
- FET rules
- NJFET voltage controlled divider
- NJFET constant current source
- NJFET source follower
presentation and handouts
(please, see slides updated on 03/19/2012 at 15:26).
lab manual
Week 09
Lecture 09 - Operational amplifiers
- Op-amps introduction
- Very bad amplifier
- Non-inverting amplifier
- Op-amps golden rules
- Inverting amplifier
- Summing inverting amplifier
- Differential amplifier
presentation and handouts
lab manual
Week 10
Lecture 10 - Useful circuits with Op-Amps
- Integrators
- Differentiator
- Compensated thermistor
presentation and handouts
lab manual
Week 11
Lecture 11 - Feedback
- Theory of feedback
- PID controllers
lab manual
Recommended reading:
Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control by John Bechhoefer, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 783-836 (2005).
Week 12
Lecture 12 - Computer Assisted Design
- Circuit simulations (5Spice)
- Layout software (Eagle)
lab manual
You may want to install the circuit simulation software to your own computer. Below the links for it.
5Spice analog circuit simulator: download link
- 5Spice electronics components library for Physics 252: Library.zip (unzip/extract into the 'Library' directory of '5Spice Analysis' --> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\5Spice Analysis).
CadSoft Eagle layout design software: download link (run as freeware).
- Eagle electronics components library for Physics 252: QuantumOptics.lbr (copy to the 'lbr' directory of 'EAGLE').
The 5Spice and Eagle electronics components libraries were provided in part by Alan Stummer (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto).
Week13
Lecture 13 - Comparators
- Comparators
- Schmitt triggers (when positive feedback is a plus)
- Relaxation oscillators
- Voltage regulators
lab manual