PHYSICS 133: ELECTRONICS

 

Offered every second Fall semester.

 

Teacher: Athanasios Petridis

                Harvey Ingham 31C

                Phone: (515) 271-3723

                E-Mail: Athan.Petridis@drake.edu

Office hours: MWF 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Class Schedule: TR, 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm. Room: HI 28

Lab Schedule: TR, 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm. Room: HI 19

 

Textbook: “Principles of Electronic Instrumentation”, A. J. Diefenderfer and B. E. Holton, Saunders, 3rd edition.

Homework: 1 assignment every 1 to 2 weeks (20 points total).

Exams: 1 exam during the semester (25 points), 1 non-comprehensive final (25 points).

Lab Reports: 3 lab reports on selected experiments, announced in class (10 points each).

NO LABS SHOULD BE MISSED WITHOUT VALID REASON. UP TO 3 LABS MAY BE MISSED FOR DOCUMENTED REASONS (MEDICAL, ARTISTIC OR OUT_OF_TOWN ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE.) ANYBODY WHO MISSES MORE THAN 3 LABS FOR ANY REASON WILL GET AN F

Grading:    100 <=  points  <= 85  is  A

                     85 <    points  <= 75  is  B

                     75 <    points  <= 65  is  C

                     65 <    points  <= 50  is  D

                     50 <    points  <=   0  is  F

No extra-credit assignments are offered during or at the end of the semester.

 

The following topics are covered in the course (the list is neither inclusive nor exclusive and may change from year to year or during the semester according to instructor’s view):

  1. Direct current circuits.
  2. Capacitors and inductors.
  3. Alternating current circuits, phasors, waveforms.
  4. Semiconductors and diodes, rectification.
  5. Electrical and electronic measurements.
  6. Transducers.
  7. Transistors and amplifiers.
  8. Operational amplifiers and their applications.
  9. Waveform generators and timers.
  10. Digital signals and gates.
  11. TTL, ECL, CMOS logic.
  12. Boolean algebra.
  13. Flip-flops, registers, counters, encoders, decoders.
  14. Microprocessors and computer organization.
  15. Digital to analog and analog to digital converters.
  16. Noise.
  17. Nuclear electronics.

 

IMPORTANT: The use of cell phones in class or in the lab is strictly prohibited.