Physics 252
Spring 2008

Electronics I
Introduction to Analog Circuits

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 1/16          NO CLASS
  Syllabus
  
  
  
• Week 1: 1/21-23          DC Circuit Basics
  Chapter 1 course notes
  Week 1 overheads
  Lab 1 instructions
  
  Lab report for lab #1 is due Monday, January 28.
  Sample lab report
  
  
  
• Week 2: 1/28-30         Kirchhoff's Laws and Thévenin's Theorem
  Chapter 2 course notes [updated]
  Week 2 overheads
  Lab 2 instructions
  
  Sample Maple programs: Miscellaneous commands, Solving a linear system of equations
  
  Lab books for week #1 and week #2 are due.
  
  
  
• Week 3: 2/4-6         Capacitors, Inductors, and Complex Impedance
  Chapter 3 course notes
  Week 3 overheads
  Lab 3 instructions
  
  Summer research opportunities:
  Charles Center Summer Scholarships
  VMEC Scholars Program ( PDF advertisement)
  Physics REU at William and Mary
  (You are strongly encouraged to apply to Physics REU programs at other universities.)
  
  
  
• Week 4: 2/11-13         Passive Filters and Transmission Lines
  Chapter 4 course notes [updated]
  Week 4 overheads
  Lab 4 instructions [updated]
  
  
  
• Week 5: 2/18-20         Diodes
  Chapter 5 course notes
  Week 5 overheads
  Lab 5 instructions
  
  1N914 silicon diode datasheet
  
  
• Week 6: 2/25-27          Transistors 1: BJTs
  Chapter 6 course notes
  Week 6 overheads
  Lab 6 instructions
  
  2N3904 transistor datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 7: 3/10-12          Transistors 2: More BJTs
  Chapter 7 course notes [updated]
  Week 7 overheads
  Lab 7 instructions
  
  
  
• Week 8: 3/17-19          Transistors 3: FETs
  Chapter 8 course notes [updated]
  Week 8 overheads
  Lab 8 instructions
  
  2N5485 N-JFET transistor datasheet
  2N3958 N-JFET matched pair transistor datasheet
  U441 N-JFET matched pair transistor datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 9: 3/24-26          Op-amps 1: Introduction to Operational Amplifiers
  Chapter 9 course notes
  Week 9 overheads
  Lab 9 instructions [updated]
  
  LM741 datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 10: 3/31-4/2          Op-amps 2: Op-amps for detectors, filtering, and power applications
  Chapter 10 course notes
  Week 10 overheads
  Lab 10 instructions
  
  FDS100 photodiode datasheet
  FDS100 photodiode datasheet (additional information)
  TH10K Thermistor datasheet
  TH10K Thermistor material datasheet
  OP27 op-amp datasheet
  
  
  
• Week 11: 4/7-9          PID Control Theory
  Chapter 11 course notes
  Week 11 overheads
  Lab 11 instructions
  
  Peltier thermoelectric cooler specsheet
  
  
  
• Week 12: 4/14-16      Electronic Circuit Design Tools
  Chapter 12 course notes
  Week 12 overheads
  Lab 12 instructions
  
  5Spice v1.40 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 v4.16r2 circuit layout design software: download link (run as freeware)
  Eagle electronics components library for Physics 252: QuantumOptics.lbr (copy to the 'lbr' directory of 'EAGLE-4.16r2').
  
  The 5Spice and Eagle electronics components libraries were provided in part by Alan Stummer (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto).
  
  
  
• Week 13: 4/21-23          Comparators
  Chapter 13 course notes
  Week 13 overheads
  Lab 13 instructions
  
  LM2903 datasheet
  MC7805 voltage regulator datasheet
  
  Soldering instructions
  Prototyping board image