Electronics Lab (Phys2303)

Fall 2017 was my last semester teaching this course.
The content below is frozen in time at Fall 2017.

Instructor:

Dr. Lloyd Bumm, NH 123, phone: 325-3961
E-mail:  bumm@ou.edu
Office hours:  by appointment

TA:

TA#1
E-mail:  TA#1 email
Office hours:  F 15:30-17:00 NH250 or by appointment

TA:

TA# 2
E-mail:  TA# 2 email
Office hours:  R 17:00-18:30 NH250 or by appointment

Lectures:

M 11:30-12:20 Nielsen Hall 302

Laboratory:

Sect 001 MW 14:30-16:20 Nielsen Hall 250 (Ryan)
Sect 002 TR
14:30-16:20 Nielsen Hall 250 (Hadi)

Textbook:
(required)

Paul Scherz & Simon Monk,
Practical Electronics for Inventors,
4th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2016).

Notebook:
(required)

notebook 5x5 Quad Ruled
20# Heavyweight Paper
[80 graph paper pages]
(the OU bookstore has
these for about $3.50)

Class Website:

http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~bumm/ELAB
http://canvas.ou.edu (grades and other sensitive info)

What the course covers:

circuits, test equipment, measurements, and analog & digital electronics.

Syllabus

Course Schedule

Due Dates:  The labs are due 1 week from the last lab period SCHEDULED for that project.  The labs are always to be turned in at the beginning of the lab period.  Labs turned in after the start of the lab period are considered late.

Labs marked SPL are part of the Self-Paced Lab part of the course.  The SPL labs can be turned in at any time during the self-paced part of the course.  The last day to turn in the SPL labs is your last scheduled lab period which is your last lab period the week before the lab practicals begin.

Looking for summer research? Consider one of the NSF REU programs. It is not too early to think about the summer!
[click here to visit the NSF REU site]

Link to OU Academic Calendars.

Link to Test Equipment Documentation.

Electronics Lab (Phys2303) Resource Matrix
Lecture Notes, Homework, Labs, & Handouts

week begining Monday
Topic
Lecture
Homework
Labs
number Subject  
Mon/Tue
Wed/Thu
21 Aug
Circuits
01
Introduction to Basic Electronic Circuits
H01
circuit analysis workshop

resistor network puzzle

[data collection guide]
28 Aug
02
Sources: Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits
H02
voltage divider measuring internal resistance of sources and meters
Superposition: dealing with multiple sources
Maximum Power Transfer
04 Sep
 
LABOR DAY
AC test instruments
11 Sep
Transients
03
RC and LR Transients
H03

RC circuits:  transient response (time domain and data analysis)

[Scientific Graphing]

18 Sep
AC Impedance
04
AC Impedance
Complex Numbers Review
H04
RC circuits:  steady state
(freq. domain and data analysis)
25 Sep
05
H05
RC circuits:  steady state
(data analysis)
RLC resonant circuits
02 Oct
Diodes
06
Diodes
H06
diodes & p/n junctions power supplies
09 Oct
Transistors
07
BJT and FET Transistors
H07
BJT transistors
16 Oct
08
FET transistors
23 Oct
Op Amps
09
Op Amps
H08
op amps
30 Oct
Combinational Logic
10
Digital Logic   intro to digital logic

basic logic circuits
[module for this lab]

06 Nov
11
Logic Minimization  

intro to computer aided design
[module for this lab]
[getting started programming]

self paced digi labs
13 Nov
Sequential Logic
12
Memory Cells   self paced digi labs
20 Nov
13
Filp-Flops and Counters   self paced digi labs
THANKSGIVING
27 Nov
Practical Stuff
for
Home & Lab
14
Power Systems   self paced digi labs
04 Dec
This is the last week of ELAB. Lab Practicals only. No lecture.
Lab Practicals
[practice materials here]
11 Dec
FINALS WEEK         HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!

Note to instructors at other institutions. You are free to use these course materials under the conditions of the creative commons license. If you use them in you class, I'd like to hear from you. On request, these materials are available to instructors as word and/or pdf documents. Naturally, any course is a work in progress. I am always working to improve the course. (L.A. Bumm)

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