29:128 Electronics
Spring 2009
Dept. of Physics
& Astronomy,
The Univ. of Iowa
John A. Goree
512 VAN
phone 335-1843
office hours: MWF 8-9. You may also just look for me in my office.
last updated 17 Apr 2009
Lecture Tuesday April 7 is cancelled. There will be lecture April 9. The last homework set will be due April 14 instead of April 9.
Extra pages of instructions for Lab 10 are here.
Student presentations schedule:
Tue Apr 14: Last name A-M
Thu Apr 16: Last name N-Z
Schedule for lab for student projects (21 April - 6 May) is here
Lecture
Tu or We 1:30-4:30, 561 VAN
- begins the first week of classes
- bring a notebook and manual
- read the manual before lab
- An introductory physics course covering electricity and magnetism.
- Familiarity with complex numbers and some calculus.
To train science students, both undergraduate and graduate, to:
- build small practical circuits
- make electronic measurements.
This course is suitable for students in all science departments. It is not intended solely for Physics and Astronomy students.
The laboratory is the focus of the learning experience in this course. The lecture serves primarily to prepare students for the laboratory.
This course is not highly theoretical. It has less math and less homework than most 100 level physics courses.
General course information:
Big files:
DO NOT print using a Departmental printer:
- Lab
Manual 2007 -- 145 pages
(Note: manual is unchanged for 2009). - Lab manual update for lab 2.
- Scanned lecture notes (for most but not all of the course)
- Chapter 1
- Chapter
2
Chapter 3 - Chapter 4
- Chapter 5 (not available)
- Chapter 8 (partial)
- Optoelectronics
handheld multimeter:
benchtop multimeter:
analog oscilloscope:
digital oscilloscope:
pulse generator:
bench power supply:
prototyping board:
(Use the following as a checklist when studying for exams):
- voltage divider
- current source
- low-pass filter
- high-pass filter
- rectifier
- power supply
- diode limiter
- diode clamp
- emitter follower
- transistor switch
- transistor current source
- common-emitter amplifier
- op-amp voltage follower
- op-amp summing amplifier
- op-amp difference amplifier
- op-amp low-pass filter
- op-amp high-pass filter
- phototransistor light detector
digital:
- gate circuits
- flip-flop circuits
- shift register
- counters
- LED display driver
- switch debouncing
analog/digital:
- oscillator
- one-shot
- digital-to-analog conversion
- analog-to-digital conversion
(Use the following as a checklist when studying for exams):
- continuity
- dc voltage
- ac voltage
- dc current
- resistance
- frequency
- triggering
- rise time
- phase response
- frequency response
- dc vs. ac input coupling
- voltage regulator stiffness
- amplifier gain
- common-mode rejection ratio
- input impedance
- output impedance
- amplifier saturation
- timing diagrams
- transient events
- clocking
- digitizing resolution
You will learn to use:
- SPICE-based circuit-simulation software (Multisym)
- Data acquisition software (LabView)
You will design and build a circuit of your own to meet whatever purpose you like:
- Toward the end of the semester, there will be no lectures and no regular lab exercises, in order to allow time for this project.
- At the beginning, you will give a 10-minute presentation in class on your proposed project. At the end, you will demonstrate your circuit.
- The circuit could arise from your thesis project, or it could complement an existing instrument, for example your telephone or stereo. You could make a game, a circuit that demonstrates some mathematical or scientific concept, or something for a hobby, such as a temperature controller for a photographic darkroom. It is up to your imagination.
- Your design must be your own.
- More instructions are found in the back of the lab manual.
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Project examples:
- Actual student projects:
- grade 95+% This prototype-board project is more ambitious than average, with significant creativity and variety. The circuit has a good error-free design and the entire circuit worked when demonstrated. The schematic is complete and fully labeled. The specifications (not shown here) were complete. The student was able to explain every feature of the design.
- grade 83% This prototype-board project was average in its complexity and variety. There are no significant design errors. The entire circuit worked when demonstrated. The specifications (page 2) are complete and ok. The schematic is properly labeled. The student was able to explain most features of the design, but was a little fuzzy on portions of the schematic (because some of the ideas incorporated in the design came from the TA, and some came from the textbook, without the student fulling understanding these ideas.)
- grade 73% This prototype-board project was average in complexity. The circuit has serious design errors such as: outputs of two different chips connected together at a node, elements of the circuit that are randomly connected or unnecessary, and the overall design doesn't make sense. The schematic and specifications are incomplete.
- Actual student projects: