THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON 3650:310 - ELECTRONICS

TEXT: The Art of Electronics
by Horowithz and Hill
Cambridge University Press

Overview

    The course will consist of classroom discussions, laboratory work, and homework problems. In general, classroom discussions will be limited to those topics relevant to the laboratory experiments and homework assignments. The text materials for the course will be taken from the following book chapters: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8. Portions of these chapters will be discussed in class and you are responsible for reading all the material relevant to the laboratory and homework exercises.

    The knowledge content and learning objectives of this course are criterion-referenced, and evaluation of knowledge and learning will be competency based. In particular, the learning objective includes completion of  all laboratory and homework exercises while an understanding of the physical principles involved in the exercises includes the knowledge content. Evaluation will be based on your ability to complete an exercise, and your presentation and interpretation of results as displayed in written reports.

Experiments and Reports

    A series of laboratory experiments will be assigned, and a written report on each experiment will be due the next class meeting following the laboratory period. The report will outline the general principles involved in the experiment, an analysis of the circuit, table(s) of data, graph(s), data analysis, and summary.

Notebook

    You should have a notebook that includes your class notes and details of the laboratory experiments (tables of data, observations, and results).

Grades

    Final grades for the course will be based on your performance in the laboratory, laboratory reports, and homework assignments. There will be no quizzes in the usual sense, however, "laboratory problems" will be given to test your understanding of basic concepts. If you have any difficulty with the laboratory, reports, homework, or basic concepts, please discuss the difficulty with me as soon as it arises.

Subjects

    The experiments and subject-related content to be  mastered during the semester are:
 
 

Use of oscilloscopes Kirchhoff's Laws and Network Analysis Voltage Dividers Ideal Current and Voltage Sources The Superposition Theorem Thevenin's Theorem Impedance and reactance	Decibels	R-C filters High-pass and low-pass filters
Semiconductor Physics Energy Levels in a Crystal Lattice Metals and Semiconductors Conductors and Insulators Conduction in Semiconductors p-n Junctions Diode Applications - Rectifiers and      Voltage doublers The Photovoltaic Diode	Bipolar Transistors Biasing and Current Flow Inside a Transistor Amplification Common Emitter Amplifier Design Common Collector Amplifier Design Common Base Amplifier Design Transistor Equivalent Circuits Transistor Switches	Feedback Negative Voltage Feedback Negative Current Feedback Positive Feedback The Miller Effect The Gain-Bandwidth Product
Operational Amplifiers Ideal versus Actual Op Amp Rules for Analyzing Op Amps Op Amp Parameters   Filters Passive and Active Filters Frequency Response Negative impedance converters and gyrators Sallen Key Filter Filter Behavior in the Time and Frequency Domains    Bandpass and Bandstop Filters	Operational Amplifier Circuits Inverting and Noninverting Amplifiers Differential Amplifier Power Booster Compensation Amplifiers Summing Amplifiers Current-to-Voltage Amplifier Logarithmic Converter Peak Detector Sample-and-Hold Circuit Differentiator and Integrator Schmitt Trigger Square-wave and Ramp Generators Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Sine-Wave Oscillator	Basic Digital Concepts Number Systems and Codes Binary Gates Positive and Negative Logic Interfacing   Basic Digital Circuits Flip-Flops Counters Serial and Parallel Data Conversion Monostable Multivibrators