This Web site contains archival material for the above listed class. This
material has not been checked for errors. I used my own notes plus supplemental
readings from Horowitz and Hill, The
Art of Electronics,
and Ralph Smith, Electronics: Circuits and Devices (1987).
Overheads of such things as the
resistance substitution board and the prototype boards. (PDF, 212 kB)
Lecture notes covering
laboratory theory and techniques. (PDF,
2 MB)
Laboratories
Lab #0 - This is nothing more than
a listing of the parts needed for the entire sequence of labs. (PDF, 28 kB)
Lab #1 - Introduction to the test
equipment and measurement procedures used in the course. It also describes
some of the common problems you may encounter in future labs. (PDF, 796 kB)
Lab #2 - Mesurement of current,
voltage and impedance. This lab demonstrates advanced use of the test
equipment and some of their shortcomings. Linear resistance and non-linear
resistances such as diodes are characterized using the test equipment.
Simple networks which demonstrare Kirchoff's Laws, Ohm's Law, impedance
and superposition are examined. (PDF, 340 kB)
Lab #3 - Time response. This lab
demonstrates and measures the time response of RC networks and oscilloscope
probes. (PDF, 460 kB)
Lab #4 - Frequency response. This
lab demonstrates the frequency response of RC and RLC networks. Frequency
response is shown to be an alternative to differential equations and
time constants for analyzing the time response of RC networks. The example
of a compensated scope probe is used. A resonant circuit is studied and
used to examine the spectral content of a square wave. (PDF, 428 kB)
Lab #5 - Diode circuits. This
lab examines the applications of diodes to practical power supply, clamping
and switching circuits. (PDF, 564 kB)
Lab #6 - Introduction to real operational
amplifiers. This lab investigates practical operational amplifiers.
Your first circuits course presented ideal operational amplifiers. In
this lab we examine the limitations of real operational amplifiers such
as slew rate in the context of the basic inverting amplifier topology.
(PDF, 476 kB)
Lab #7 - More real operational
amplifiers. This lab extends lab #6 to non-inverting and instrumentation
amplifiers. (PDF, 332 kB)
Lab #8 - Non-linear operational
amplifier circuits. This lab examines the principles and operation of
non-linear operational amplifier circuits. The Schmitt trigger exhibits
hysteris and is often used to "square up" analog signals. The comparatot
is often used to monitor the presence or absence of analog signals. Effectively,
these circuits convert analog signals into 0's or 1's. The performance
of these circuits in the presence of simulated "noise" is examined.
(PDF, 364 kB)
Lab #9 - Common emitter amplifiers.
This lab examines two different amplifier configurations and demonstartes
the variability of the parameters bDC, bo and
rx encountered with commercial
transistors. (PDF, 408 kB)
Lab #10 - Emitter follower amplifiers.
This lab examines the emitter follower amplifier, its input and output
impedance, and its ability to drive a load. This lab also covers operation
of the Tektronix 576 curve tracer which allows you to display a transistor.s
output characteristics. (PDF, 404 kB)
Lab #11 - FET characteristics, amplifiers,
and applications. This lab compares methods for measuring the DC characteristics
of an N-channel JFET. The performance of a FET current course will be
examplied. The common source and common drain JFET configurations will
be examined. (PDF, 416 kB)
References
CRTs and Oscilloscopes and
how they work. This is a very good explanation from Chapter 3 of Ralph
Smith, Electronics:
Circuits and Devices (1987). (PDF, 864 kB)