Lectures:
Physics & Astronomy Building, Room A110
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:50-12:30

Labs:
Physics & Astronomy Building, Room B280

T / Th 1:10 - 4:30

W / F 1:10 - 4:30

Important course information will be posted here.


The final exam will be on Tues. July 22. It will be a closed book
(closed notes) exam. A 'fact sheet' will be provided.

Here are two old exams you should study.

Analog exam

Digital exam

Teaching Assistants

Benjamin W Pratt
mistaben@u
office: Physics & Astromomy Building B231
206 685-2465

Alan Jamison
jamisona@phys
Office: Physics & Astronomy Building B225
206-543-6886

Technical Support

Jason Alferness
Program Operations Specialist
Office: B256, Physics & Astronomy Building
alf@u
206 221-2974

Physics Education Group

MacKenzie Stetzer
Teaching Effectiveness Specialist
Office: C224, Physics & Astronomy Building
stetzer@phys
206 543-6390

• Course Syllabus. Be sure you read this.
  
  
• Lecture notes on diodes and transistors. These notes give a quick summary of diode and transistor operation along with an explanation of a few basic transistor circuits.
  
  
• You may want to look at the practice exam and solutions from the Winter 2007 version of the course: Practice exam 1; Solutions 1; Practice exam 2; Solutions 2. (Note: In practice exam 2, the comparator input polarity in problem 1 is inverted...it's correct in the solutions.)
  
  
• Schmitt trigger threshold calculator: this LabVIEW VI will allow you to check your calculated thresholds for a Schmitt trigger made with an LF311 comparator. Note: you need LabVIEW 7 (or higher) in order to open and run this. LabVIEW is installed in the electronics lab computers.

• Homework Set 1 (Due Tue. July 1)
  *Solution to HW1
• Homework Set 2 (Due Tue. July 8)
  *Solution to HW2
• Homework Set 3 (Due Tue. July 15)
  *Solution to HW3
• Homework Set 4 (Due Tue. July 22)
  *Solution to HW4

Lab notes are to be used along with the Student manual for the labs. The notes contain important information to help make the exercises easier and clearer. They also tell you about changes in the exercises that you need to know for your reports.

• Comments on lab organization
• Tips for using the lab "breadboards"
• Some extra information on the use of the oscilloscopes: (1) The User Manual for the Tektronix digital oscilloscopes. (2) An exercise and tutorial on using oscilloscopes and function generators, from physics 431/432.
• Notes for Lab 1
• Notes for Lab 2
• Notes for Lab 3
• Notes for Lab 4
• Notes for Lab 5
• Notes for Lab 6
• Notes for Lab 7
• Notes for Lab 8

Thanks to the contributions of Profs. Blayne Heckel, Prof. Oscar Vilches, Leslie Rosenberg, Jason Alferness, and John Stoltenberg for these materials.

June 23-27
Reading: Manual pp. 3-23 and 32-53; Text pp. 3-39; Notes for Labs 1&2

July 1-4
Reading: Manual pp. 61-74, 80-81, 166-176: Text: pp. 40-59, 175-186; Notes for Labs 3&4

July 7-11:
Reading: Manual pp. 184-199, 207-221, 224-231, 242-243; Text pp. 189-218, 222-224, 229-236, 284-290, 296-297
Notes for Labs 5&6

July 14-18:
Reading: Manual pp. 283-308, 320-333, 342-361; Text pp. 471-492, 504-516, 523-527; Notes for Labs 7&8

Lecture Notes Set 1

Lecture Notes Set 2

Lecture Notes Set 3

Lecture Notes Set 4

Lecture Notes Set 5

Lecture Notes Set 6

Lecture Notes Set 7

Lecture Notes Set 8