PHYSICS 226 -- ELECTRONICS

Level
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill

Prerequisite
Physics 122, 132, 142, or equivalent

This course in practical electronics provides students with 4-8 hours per week in laboratory as well as 3 hours per week of lecture. These lectures are very closely correlated with the work in the laboratory.

Lecture Topics
  1. Review of DC circuit theory
  2. AC circuit theory
  3. Brief introduction to semiconductor devices
  4. Amplifiers: including small signal models of transistors, transistor biasing, and high frequency behavior.
  5. Feedback
  6. Operational amplifiers
  7. Introduction to digital electronics: including boolean algebra and digital switches
  8. Multivibrators
  9. Counters and shift registers
  10. A/D and D/A converters

Typical Experiments
  1. DC circuits
  2. Transient and frequency response of simple circuits
  3. Single stage transistor amplifiers
  4. Biasing and feedback
  5. Operational amplifiers
  6. Multivibrators
  7. Digital gates and boolean algebra
  8. Digital multivibrators and binary adders
  9. Digital counters and shift registers


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