Lectures at 2pm on Monday zoom 93320674236
Assignments submission at Gradescope
| Section | Instructor | TA | Zoom link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, 2pm | Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Ran Yang | William Miyahira | zoom 93143887882 |
| Wednesday, 2pm | Eugeniy E. Mikhailov | Ziqi Niu | zoom 93143887882 |
| Thursday, 2pm | Ran Yang | Robert Behary | zoom 97369875209 |
Everyone has a favorite plotting software. Though if you are using Excel and similar things, then you are riding a bicycle in the space exploration time.
The university provide license for Matlab but you need to request it. Proceed to W&M Matlab page to request it.
Matlab comes comes with many toolboxes, among them for this class you need
The rest is optional and can be installed later.
Matlab should be installed in every campus computer lab and there is also web based version. But it might be good to have your own.
There is also one page Matlab tutorial for a very quick introduction to Matlab fitting.
If you need a more advance/nonlinear fitting hints. Have a look at fitting introduction materials of Phys-256 class which I taught. You will probably find super useful the fitting chapter from my book “Programming with MATLAB for Scientists: A Beginner’s Introduction” book which is available at amazon and at the CRC Press.
Examples of plots with python at Prof. Yang page
lecture 01 slides, lecture 01 slides with marks
Reading material - manual DC_circuit_basics.pdf
HW and Lab assignment, make sure that you have an account at Multisim circuit simulator
Reading material - manual LabManual_Chpt3.pdf skip part about Transformer, and just glance how to use complex impedance to solve RC circuit.
Reading material - manual LabManual_Chpt4.pdf skip part about LC filters and transmission lines
Software simulators
Note that the manual discusses uni-polar comparators. In the lecture, we derive a more general case for bi-polar comparators based on OpAmps.
For the period of oscillations refer to the slides. I made a factor of 2 mistake in the video.
run it in Matlab as
S0 = .1; Sd = 1; tau = 10; Gp = -10; Gi = -2; Gd = 0;
[t,S] = pid_dynamics(S0, Sd, tau, Gp, Gi, Gd);extra materials: Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control if you want a deeper knowledge about feedbacks.
Please see the blackboard site. Possibly outdated files
Read the assignment carefully. There are multiple deadlines. It is OK to start assembling a team and to discuss strategies ahead of time.
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