AEP 3630 - Electronic Circuits

(crosslisted)
(also PHYS 3360)

Fall, spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: PHYS 2208 or PHYS 2213 or permission of instructor. No previous experience with electronics assumed; however, course moves quickly through introductory topics such as basic DC circuits. Fall semester usually less crowded. 1 lec, 2 labs.

Fall, E. Kirkland; spring, staff.

Students analyze, design, build, and experimentally test circuits used in scientific and engineering instrumentation (with discrete components and integrated circuits). Analog circuits: resistors, capacitors, operational amplifiers (linear amplifiers with feedback, oscillators, comparators), filters, diodes, and transistors. Digital circuits: combinatorial (gates) and sequential (flip-flops, counters, shift registers) logic. Computer interfacing introduced and used to investigate digital to analog (DAC) and analog to digital conversion (ADC) and signal averaging.