TA: Gregg Dobrowalski, gdobrowa@physics.ucsd.edu Jon Driscoll, jdriscol@physics.ucsd.edu
SECRETARY: Jo Ann Christina 3114 Mayer Hall, 534-2593 LECTURES: Mon, Wed, Fri 1:00 - 1:50 p.m., 2123 WLH
LAB TIMES: Tues, Wed, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m., 2120 WLH
LABORATORY MANUAL: Physics 120B Laboratory Manual Write-ups Distributed in class
LAB REPORTS DUE: 2120 WLH, 6 p.m. Friday (except 26 Nov. -> 29 Nov.) Lab Write-ups should show circuits, formulas, data, and graphs. Verbosity is strongly discouraged; handwritten preferred.
TEXT BOOK: L.R. Fortney "Principles of Electronics, Analog and Digital" (1987)
BOOKS IN LAB: Horowitz and Hill, "The Art of Electronics" Not a textbook, but very useful
NOTEBOOKS: You may use quadrille ruled notebooks, or you may use 8 1/2 x 11 quadrille-lined notepads.
This course will cover analog and digital circuits, and signal detection and processing techniques such as coherent detection and spectral analysis. Circuits of moderate complexity will be constructed on prototype boards. The lectures will begin with a review of analog circuits, and the first lab will be on transistor amps. Two labs will introduce TTL logic and flip-flops. The fourth and fifth labs are on the phase locked loop and lock-in detection, which are widely used in communication technology. The next lab will explore some aspects of digital sound and Fourier analysis. The last three weeks will let you develop a special project of your own choice.
The lectures will review the material from Fortney, and supplement it with real-world circuits. A part of each Monday lecture will deal with the lab experiment of the current week.
The homework is designed to help you with the course content and to assure you that you have really understood it. Do the homework yourself; it will pay off. The homework part of your grade will be based on the number of problems seriously attempted, not the number correctly solved. The homework is due on Fridays in class. Solutions will be distributed then. No late homework will be accepted.
The lab will be staffed weekday afternoons. Students working in the lab at other times are responsible for the state of the lab. For safety reasons, there must be at least two persons in the laboratory at all times. Also, there should be no food or drinks in the lab; use the lecture room for all refreshments.
The circuit diagrams and measurements should be recorded in the notebooks of each partner, or on quadrille paper. The lab write-up, submitted separately by each partner, should be self-contained and succinct, answering the questions raised in the lab manual and in the data analysis.
The reports are not meant to be exercises in word processing.
The text may be a handwritten summary section in the notebook, referring
back to data tables and plots. All graphs should have the axes properly
labelled and units specified. Hand labeling is generally preferable
to computer labeling, because it is more likely to have some thought behind
it. For each section of a lab report you should:
Grading Policy
Lectures Labs Read Fortney Homework (Due Fri,
in class)
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20 Sep M
w0 W
F Review Analog 1,2,3,4
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27 Sep M Review Analog 5,6,7,8
w1 W " " Trans, Amps
F " " (2)9,15,20,23
(3)6,10,23 (4)3
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4 Oct M Rev. Transistors 9.1--9.10
w2 W Amps Trans, Amps
F Digital Gates (5)11 (6)10,12,16,
20,23 (7)8,25
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11 Oct M 9.11--9.17
w3 W Digital Flip-Flops Logic Gates
F (9)1,2,3,8,17
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18 Oct M Digital Multiplexing
w4 W Flip Flops 10.1--10.63
F 10.12 (9)9,11,18,22,27
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25 Oct M Data Acquisition 10.6.4--10.12
w5 W Phase Locked Loop
F (10)3,5,7,8
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1 Nov M MIDTERM EXAM 12.1--12.5
W Signal Analysis FFT/Lock-In
F (10)16,17,19,24,25
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8 Nov M 13.1--13.4
w7 W Fourier/Audio
F Noise & Statistics (12)1,2,15,19
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15 Nov M Independent 13.5--13.8
w8 W Project
F Sampled Signals (13)1,3,7,12,14
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22 Nov M Independent
w9 W Project 14.1--14.7
HOLIDAY None
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29 Nov M Independent
w10 W Project
F (14)2,3,4,5,9,10
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6 Dec Monday 11:30 AM -- 2:30 PM ** FINAL EXAM **