PHYS 338: Analog Electronics -- Spring 2016

NOTE: For numerical problems on exams and homework, always report exactly three 
significant digits.  In lab, use the proper scale and  always record every digit 
displayed by the measuring device, but generally we will not be doing error calculations.
Too many or too few sigfigs will result in lost points!

HH = Horowitz and Hill: The Art of Electronics, 3rd
 P = http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/338/problems.pdf
web: http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/338/
AW:  http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/~awhitten/phys338.html

Note: "thru" and "-" mean through and including, so a reading assignment of "12.2-12.3"
means read all of both sections, including, for example, section 12.3.9


review (for those new to electronics)
web: electric_measurement.pdf
web: complex_review.pdf
REMARK: for this class you must be able to calculate (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
with complex numbers as easily as you do with real numbers.  This strongly suggests
learning how to do those operations on your calculator.

lab policies continued from 217:
web: 217lab0.pdf
REMARK: the functioning of the protoboards we will be using is explained in the youtube
videos listed in this document.  You need to know how your protoboards works on Day One.

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topic: basic components:
HH 1-1.5, 1.7-end

topic: complex numbers, impedance, filters, LRC

topic: Thevenin

HW: problems.pdf: 1,2,5,6,11,13,14,17,18,23,25,26,28,29
HW: HH 1.11 (p11)

REMARK: the Digital students have already done problems.pdf 20+21...if you didn't take
digital you should make sure you can also do these calculations.

---above due: Friday March 11---

misc topics you should understand (even if only touched on in lecture)
ground: HH 8.16 - p.583
dB: HH p 15
"power factor" HH 1.7.6 (p 47-8)

HW: problems.pdf: 32,41,50, HH 1.25 (p.46)

main topic: power supplies
basics
transformers: HH 1.5.2
diodes: HH 1.6
HH chapter 9 is 100 pages on power supplies...all good stuff but more than we can cover
but you should at least skim 100% of this chapter
Begin by skimming thru 9.5
READ: 9.3-9.3.3, 9.3.11-9.3.13, 9.4- p.636, 9.8.5-6, 9.11-9.12.2, Review: A-D,H

brief topic: how switchers work

HW: problems.pdf: 34-37;  HH 1.20 BUT build it as a half-wave rectifier circuit (p.33)
    old exam: http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/338/2014/338t1_14.pdf: 1,2,5,6

---above due: Friday March 18---

topic: the generic amplifier: Thevenin applied 

main topic: operational amps ="opamps"

HH 4-4.3.2, 4.4-4.4.3, 4.5.5-p261, 4.6.4-4.6.5, 4.9-4.9.1, 4.9.3A review

topic: negative feedback
HH: (p. 115) 2.5-2.5.3

HW: problems.pdf 38-40, 42-46

---above due: Friday April 1---

HW: HH 4.3 (p.229)---this is an excercise in using (doing the algebra for) the Golden Rules.  To give you a
hint as to what's involved: notice that if Vin=0 then the equivalence of voltage dividers R1R4 & R2R3
gives you that V+=V- where the voltage divider equation has assumed zero current diversion thru the load.
If Vin>0, V- would be larger than V+...the only way to raise V+ is to send more current thru R2...that
current will be sucked thru the load: I=-Vin/R2.  Straightforward algebra can get you through this
problem, but using the Thevenin equivalent circuit to the bottom voltage divider of Fig. 4.14
and Millman's thm (p.1108) for the top voltage divider provides a moderately quick solution.

Note: exam on Monday 11-Apr includes up to Op-Amps...no ch.3 FETs

main topic: FETs

Read HH ch.3
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/trace/CC.html
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/trace/nFET.CC.html

HW: problems.pdf: 55-58, 71b

---above due: Friday April 8---

Exam 1: Monday 11-April
Help: Sunday 8:15pm

HW: problems.pdf: 59-60,73

main topic: bipolar junction transistors (BJT: npn & pnp)
Read: HH ch.2


HW: problems.pdf: 61-64

---above due: Friday April 15---

main topic: bipolar junction transistors (BJT: npn & pnp)
	  : bias
  
HW: problems.pdf: 65, 66, 71a, 75
HW: problems.pdf: 68

---above due: Friday April 22---

last bits: bipolar junction transistors: inside; new circuits

HW: problems.pdf: 67, 72, 74

main topic: noise HH ch 8
Read: 8-8.3.1, 8.6-8.6.2, 8.9 (3 paragraphs), 8.10 (thru p 536), 8.13-8.13.2, 8.13.7A, 8.14-end
skim: all of chapter 8

---above due: Friday April 29---

Help: 11:15 Monday

Final Exam: Tuesday 8am
alternative: Wednesday 2pm