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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Science : Physics

640-251 Electronics and Instrumentation

Credit Points:

12.5

Coordinator:

Mr J Pearce

Prerequisite/s:

Physics 640-121 + 640-122 or 640-141 + 640-142 or 640-161 + 640-162 (before 1996: 640-120 or 640-140 or 640-160); Mathematics 618-111 or 618-121 or 618-142 (before 1996: 618-101).

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

26 lectures and seminars (two a week) and 52 hours laboratory (a 1-hour and a 3-hour lab per week)

Objectives:

By the end of the course the student should:

  • comprehend the basic ideas and techniques of electronics;

  • be able to analyse simple electronic circuits;

  • have acquired skills in designing and building electronic circuits;

  • appreciate the central role that electronics plays in modern physics research;

  • be able to apply electronics and instrumentation ideas to measurement tasks.

Content:

Electronic systems: signals, transducers and measurement. Circuits: DC and steady state AC, network analysis and theorems using complex number representation, frequency response of electronic systems; filters. Electronic devices: semiconductors, amplifiers, oscillators. Electronic measurement systems: transducers, instrumentation, data-logging, processing and display.

Assessment:

A 2-hour end-of-semester written examination (50%); practical work (50%).

Prescribed Texts:

  • N. Storey, Electronics, A Systems Approach, Addison-Wesley 1992.
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