Class Web site (You're reading it!!):

http://www.physics.utah.edu/~springer/phys3610/index.html

Textbook:

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering , Leonard S. Bobrow, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1985. ISBN 0-03-059571-1

Additional Recommended Texts (some should be on reserve in the library)

• Microelectronic Circuits , Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1987. ISBN 0-03-007328-6
• The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill, Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-521-37095-7
• Micro-electronics : Digital and Analog Circuits and Systems , Jacob Millman, McGraw-Hill, 1979. ISBN 0-07-02327-X
• Electronics with Digital and Analog Integrated Circuits , Richard J. Higgins, Prentice-Hall, 1983. ISBN 0-13-250704-8
• TTL Cookbook
• CMOS Cookbook

Micro-electronics: Digital and Analog Integrated Circuits  , The Art of Electronics, TTL Cookbook and CMOS Cookbook are more useful as references. The books by
Higgins and Sedra are of a more padagogical nature and are useful for learning the material.

Tentative Course Requirements and Grades.

This course will provide you with "hands-on" experience building electronic circuits.
Particular emphasis will therefore be placed on your performance in actually building circuits and getting them to work.  In addition to the laboratory exercises there will also be homework, quizzes and a final exam. The TA will evaluate your performance
of the lab exercises by having you perform a demonstration of the functioning circuitry. The TA will also ask a set of questions whose purpose is to determine if you have acquired an understanding of the concepts associated with a particular lab exercise. Homework assignments WILL be collected. They however will not be graded in great detail. The main purpose of the homework assignments will be to help you prepare for quizzes as well as the final exam. Homework solutions will be provided. A comprehensive final exam will also be given. Your final grade will be determined in the following manner.
 

• Homework  10%
• Quizzes 25%
• Final Exam 25%
• Laboratory evaluations 40%
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Schedule and Dates

August 2000 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa       1   2    3   4  5  6   7    8   9  10 11 12 13 14 15 16  17 18 19 20 21 22 23  24 25 26 27 28 29 30  31	September 2000 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa             1  2   3   4   5   6    7    8  9 10 11 12 13  14 15 16 17 18 19 20  21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	October 2000 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  1    2    3   4    5   6 7  8    9  10 11  12 13 14 15 16  17 18  19 20 21 22 23  24 25  26 27 28 29 30 31
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Tentative Schedule

Aug 24 General Overview
Aug 29  Lecture 1
Aug 31  Lecture 2
Sep   5   Lecture 3
Sep   7   Lecture 4  and quiz on lectures 1-3
Sep 12   Lecture 5
Sep 14   Lecture 6
Sep 19   Lecture 7
Sep 21   Lecture 8 and quiz on lectures 4-7
Sep 26   Lecture 9
Sep 28   Lecture 10
Oct   3   Lecture 11
Oct   5   No Classes
Oct 10   Lecture 12
Oct 12   Lecture 13 and quiz on lectures 8-12
Oct 17   Lecture 14
Oct 19   Lecture 15
Oct 24   Lecture 16
Oct 26   Lecture 17 and quiz on lectures 13-16
Oct 31   Lecture 18
Nov  2   Lecture 19
Nov  7   Lecture 20
Nov  9   Lecture 21 and quiz on lectures 17-20
Nov 14  Lecture 22
Nov 16  Lecture 23
Nov 21  Lecture 24
Nov 23  Lecture and quiz on lectures 21-24
Nov 28  Lecture
Nov 30  Lecture
Dec   5  Lecture
Dec   7  Review
Dec   8  Last Day of Classes
Dec 12 Final Exam
 

Important Dates:
 

Event	Date
·  Last day to withdraw:	·  Friday October 10
·  Last day of classes :	·  Friday December 8
·  Final Exam:	·  Tuesday December 12 at 8:20-10:20 PM (or TBA)

Click here to see UniversityFall 2000 Academic Calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

LECTURES

Lecture #	Title
(click for Word File)	(click for HTML version of lecture)
Lecture 1.	Ohm's Law
Lecture 2.	Differential Circuit Parameters, Input and Output resistance, Thevenin's Theorem
Lecture 3.	Linear Differential Operational Amplifiers
Lecture 4.	(a) Virtual Equality, Feedback Equation and Op-amps (b) Ideal Op-amps vs. Real Op-amps
Lecture 5.	Op-amps: Voltage Comparator, Schmitt Trigger
Lecture 6.	Digital Logic Circuits, Karnaugh Maps
Lecture 7.	Flip-flops, Counting Circuits and Shift Registers
Lecture 8.	Semiconductor Diodes, Power Supplies
Lecture 9.	Voltage Regulators
Lecture 10.	Inductors and Capacitors, Rise Times, Multivibrators
Lecture 11.	Complex Impedances
Lecture 12.	The S Plane and Transfer Impedances: Laplace Transforms, Transfer Functions and Bode Plots
Lecture 13.	Sine Wave Power, Fourier Analysis, Sine Wave Generators
Lecture 14.	Active Filters
Lecture 15.	Transistors
Lecture 16.	Zeroth Order Calculation of Performance of Transistor Circuit
Lecture 17.	P-N Junctions, A Slightly Closer Look
Lecture 18.	Some Transistor Circuits and Their Analysis
Lecture 19.	Field Effect Transistors (FETs); Biasing and Operation of FETs
Lecture 20.	Amplitude Modulation and Transconductance Operational Amplifier
Lecture 21.	Generators (intended and otherwise)
Lecture 22.	FM Modulation and the Phase Locked Loop
Lecture 23.	Phase Locked Loop Filters and Applications
Lecture 24.	A Brief Introduction to Noise

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Laboratory Exercises

Session #	Exercise
Session 1.	The Laboratory-Parts kit, color codes,etc.
Session 2.	Voltage Dividers, The Oscilloscope
Session 3.	The Op-Amp Amplifier
Session 4.	A Digital-to-Analog Converter
Session 5.	A High-Gain Amplifier
Session 6.	Schmitt Trigger Temperature Alarm
Session 7.	Logic Gates, Truth Tables and the Exclusive OR
Session 8.	Simple Finite-State Machines using Flip-Flops
Session 9.	A Selective Gate
Session 10.	A Simple Clock
Session 11.	Diode Clamping, Half/Full Wave Signal Rectification
Session 12.	Fixed and Adjustable Voltage Regulators
Session 13.	Simple Time Constants, Passive Filters
Session 14.	Delay Generator and Astable Multivibrator, Ocillators
Session 15.	Precision Diode Circuit
Session 16.	A Simple Frequency-Dependent Amplifier
Session 17.	An Active Low-Pass State Filter for Harmonic Selection
Session 18.	Transistor Switch and Emitter Follower
Session 19.	Single Stage Transistor Amplifier Design
Session 20.	Multi-Transistor Circuits: Current Mirror and Differential Pair
Session 21.	JFET and MOS-FET Single Stage Amplfiers
Session 22.	An Operational Transconductance Amplifier Sample-and-Hold Circuit
Session 23.	A Sawtooth Waveform Generator
Session 24.	Voltage Controlled Oscillator and Frequency Shift Keying
Session 25.	Phase Locked Loop Characteristics
Session 26.	Frequency Synthesis with the Phase Locked Loop
Session 27.	Demodulation of Frequency Shift Keying with Phase Locked Loop
Session 28.	Final Project
Session 29.	Final Project