PHYS 3360

PHYS 3360

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

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.

Permission Note S/U is a grade option with permission of the instructor.
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.

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: AEP 3630

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6955 PHYS 3360   LEC 001

  • Please contact Danyel Wierson in 121 Clark Hall with enrollment issues. Danyel can add you to a wait list for this course and answer your scheduling questions.

  •  6220 PHYS 3360   LAB 401

  •  6221 PHYS 3360   LAB 402