| Physics 261 Fall, 2012 Syllabus | ||||||||||
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| Date | Item | # | Topic | Reading | ||||||
| 28-Aug | Lecture | 1 | Intro, course requirements, charge/voltage/current/resistance | Ch. 2 | ||||||
| 30-Aug | Lab | 1 | The Art of Electrical Measurements | resistor codes | ||||||
| Ch. 15 | ||||||||||
| 31-Aug | Homework | 1 | Solution | HW 1 | ||||||
| 04-Sep | Lecture | 2 | Circuit diagrams, Kirchoff's laws, series & parallel | Ch. 3 | ||||||
| 06-Sep | Lab | 2 | Ohm's and Kirchoff's Laws | Ch. 3 | ||||||
| 07-Sep | Homework | 2 | Solution | HW 2 | ||||||
| 11-Sep | Lecture | 3 | voltage & current division, node voltage analysis | Ch. 4 | ||||||
| 13-Sep | Lab | 3 | Voltage and Current Division | Ch. 18 | ||||||
| 14-Sep | Homework | 3 | Solution | HW 3 | ||||||
| 18-Sep | Lecture | 4 | Node voltage analysis (revisited), Thevenin & Norton equivalents | Ch. 6 | ||||||
| 20-Sep | Lab | 4 | Thevenin & Norton equivalents | |||||||
| 21-Sep | Homework | 4 | Solution | HW 4 | ||||||
| 25-Sep | Lecture | 5 | Exam Review | |||||||
| Practice Exam | Solution | |||||||||
| 27-Sep | Lab | 5 | Exam 1 (lectures 1-4) at 10am & 12pm | solution | ||||||
| 28-Sep | Homework | 5 | No HW | |||||||
| 02-Oct | Lecture | 6 | Semiconductors, diodes & transistors | Ch. 41-42 (skim ch.40) | ||||||
| 04-Oct | Lab | 6 | Introduction to the Transistor | |||||||
| 05-Oct | Homework | 6 | Solution | HW 6 | ||||||
| 09-Oct | Lecture | 7 | The Operational Amplifier | Ch. 28 (skim ch.31) | ||||||
| 11-Oct | Lab | 7 | Introduction to the Op Amp | |||||||
| 12-Oct | Homework | 7 | Solution | HW 7 | ||||||
| 16-Oct | Lecture | 8 | Basic circuits using the Op Amp | Ch. 29 (stop at p. 260) | ||||||
| 18-Oct | Lab | 8 | Circuit Loading and the Op Amp | |||||||
| 19-Oct | Homework | 8 | Solution | HW 8 | ||||||
| 23-Oct | Lecture | 9 | Comparators and the Schmitt Trigger | Ch. 34 | ||||||
| 25-Oct | Lab | Soldering practice | Soldering Tutorial | |||||||
| 25-Oct | (during lab) | Exam Review (click for practice exam) | solution | |||||||
| 26-Oct | Homework | 9 | Solution | HW 9 | ||||||
| 30-Oct | Lecture | — | Exam 2 (lectures 6-9, Chs. 41-42, 28-29, 34) | |||||||
| Exam 2 Solution | ||||||||||
| 01-Nov | Lecture | 10 | Lecture during lab: Complex numbers | Ch. 51 | ||||||
| 02-Nov | (see next week for HW on complex numbers) | No HW | ||||||||
| 06-Nov | Election Day | No School | ||||||||
| 08-Nov | Lab | 9-I | Headphone Amplifier I: Build & Test | |||||||
| 09-Nov | Homework | 10 | Solution | HW 11 | ||||||
| 13-Nov | Lecture | 1 | Alternating current | Ch. 7 | ||||||
| 15-Nov | Lab | 9-II | Headphone Amplifier II: Performance | Ch. 17 | ||||||
| 16-Nov | Homework | 11 | Solution | HW 12 | ||||||
| 20-Nov | Lecture | 2 | Capacitors, inductors and impedance | Ch. 8 | ||||||
| 22-Nov | Thanksgiving | — | No School | |||||||
| 23-Nov | HW [due Wed, Nov 28] | 12 | Solution | HW 13 | ||||||
| 27-Nov | Lecture | 3 | AC circuit analysis and resonance | Ch. 9-10 | ||||||
| Handout: dimensionless numbers and logarithmic axes | ||||||||||
| 29-Nov | Lab | 10 | Sinusoidal forcing & impedance | |||||||
| 30-Nov | Homework | 13 | Solution | HW 14 | ||||||
| 04-Dec | Lecture | 4 | Step functions and transient analysis | Ch. 12-13 | ||||||
| 06-Dec | Lab | 11 | Exponential waveforms & capacitance | |||||||
| 07-Dec | Homework | 14 | Solution | HW 15 | ||||||
| 11-Dec | 7:00-9:00 pm | Review Session (note location: EPS 258) | ||||||||
| EPS 258 | Practice problems | solution | ||||||||
| 13-Dec | 12:00-1:50 pm Roberts 412 | Final Exam (cumulative, but emphasizes lectures 10-14) | ||||||||
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