Week1: lab manual, slides
Week2: lab manual, slides
Week3: lab manual
Announcement: Neither lab reports nor log books are due this week.
Week4: lab manual, slides
Announcements:
Lab reports for labs 2 and 3 are due on Monday. Because of snow, Wednesday section should submit only the Lab 2 lab report.
Log books are due on Thursday and Friday 5pm with prepared labs 2 (for all) and 3 (for Thursday section). Design exercises for labs 3 and 4 should be done by both sections.
What time is convenient for the Wednesday section make up lab? Please send me your free slots so I can find the spot suitable for everyone. Please reserve at least 4 hours and let me know via email.
Week5: lab manual, slides
Announcements:
The Wednesday section log books for lab 2-3 and lab reports for lab 3 are due on Monday.
The midterm exam will take place during the first hour of the appropriate lab section (Wednesday and Thursday). The material of first 4 weeks will be covered.
Week6: lab manual, slides
Announcements:
Since many of you have an exam on Monday, the lab reports due date is shifted. Lab reports for labs 4 and 5 must be submitted at the beginning of the appropriate lab section.
Log books are due on Thursday and Friday 5pm with prepared labs 4-5.
Week7: lab manual, slides
Week8: lab manual, slides
NJFET Matched Pair 2N3958 datasheet with important highlights
NJFET Matched Pair U441 datasheet
Announcements:
Lab reports for labs 6 and 7 are due on Monday.
Log books are due on Thursday and Friday 5pm with prepared labs 6 and 7.
Week9: lab manual lab part updated on 03/31/2010, slides
Week10: lab manual updated 04/07/2010 (the figure 10.3 had the op-amp inputs switched), slides added slides with thermistor linearization
FDS100 photodiode datasheet (additional information)
TH10K Thermistor material datasheet
Lab reports for labs 8 and 9 are due on Monday.
Log books are due on Thursday and Friday 5pm with prepared labs 8 and 9.
Week11: lab manual updated on 04/13/2010 (small typo in the eq. 11.16 fixed)
Recommended reading: Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control by John Bechhoefer, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 783-836 (2005).
Peltier thermoelectric cooler datasheet
Week12: lab manual
Lab reports for labs 10 and 11 are due on Monday.
Log books are due on Thursday and Friday 5pm with prepared labs 10 and 11.
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: lab manual
LM2903 datasheet MC7805 voltage regulator datasheet
Design exercise 13 is due Friday 5pm. Lab reports for lab 12 and 13 are due Monday 05/03/2010 5pm.