PHYS 3360
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PHYS 3360
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.
Practical electronics as encountered in a scientific or engineering research/development environment. Analyze, design, build, and test circuits using discrete components and integrated circuits. Analog circuits: resistors, capacitors, operational amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, oscillators, comparators, passive and active filters, diodes, and transistor switches and amplifiers. Digital circuits: combinational and sequential logic (gates, flipflops, registers, counters, timers), analog to digital (ADC) and digital to analog (DAC) conversion, signal averaging, and computer architecture and interfacing. Additional topics may include analog and digital signal processing, light wave communications, transducers, noise reduction techniques, and computer-aided circuit design. At the level of Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill.
When Offered Fall, Spring.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: undergraduate course in electricity and magnetism (e.g., PHYS 2208, PHYS 2213, or PHYS 2217) or permission of instructor.
Distribution Category (PBS-AS)
Comments No previous electronics experience assumed, although the course moves quickly through introductory topics such as basic DC circuits.
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: AEP 3630
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Hoffstaetter, G
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Clark Hall 409
Instructors
Hoffstaetter, G
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- WF Clark Hall 409
Instructors
Hoffstaetter, G
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