PHYS 404 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Week Date Topics Lab Homework
1
Aug 22

Kirchoff's Laws, Phasors,

Impedance, Bode plots, Superposition 

Review of complex numbers

Passive circuits

hw1

Due Sept 7

Aug 24

Power, Impedance matching

Time domain signals 

Passive circuits

hw1 solutions

 

2
Aug 29
Grounding, Electrical safefy  Passive circuits  
Aug 31
Amplifiers  Passive circuits  
3
Sept 5

Labor Day - no classes

Semiconductors

Passive circuits

Example lab report 

Read class notes

on semiconductors

 Sept 7

Diode circuits

Passive circuits

Lab1 Report

due Sunday,

Sept 18

 
4
Sept 12
Bipolar junction transistors

Transistor amps

hw2

Due Sept 25

Sept 14 

Transistor amplifiers

Recorded lecture

Transistor amps  
5
Sept 19
Feedback, Op amps Transistor amps

 

Sept 21  

Analog filters

Transistor amps

 

6

Sept 26

Oscilllators 

Transistor amps

Lab2 report 

due Friday, Oct 14

hw3

Due Oct 9

Sept 28
Circuit stability and Nyquist theorem Op amps  
7

Oct 3

Power supplies and regulators

Op amps  
Oct 5

MOSFETs

Op amps

 

8
Oct 10

Logic gates

Op amps

 

Oct 12

Sequential logic, memory circuits

Op amps

Lab3 report 

due Friday, Oct 28

hw4

Due Oct 30

9 Oct 17

Analog/Digital Conversion

Sampling and aliasing

Digital  
Oct 19

Digital Filtering

FET amplifiers

Digital 

 

10 Oct 24

I2C bus

Electronic noise

Digital

 

Oct 26

Phase sensitive detection

Digital

Magnetometer

User Guide

 

 

11 Oct 31

Optoelectronics

Lockin amplifier

hw5

Due Nov 18

Solutions

Nov 2

Transmission lines

Lockin amplifier

  

12 Nov 7 

Transmission lines

High frequencies, Miller's theorem

Lockin amplifier

No lab on Nov 8

 
Nov 9

Modulation, Communication

Lockin amplifier

Lab4 report

due Nov 11

13 Nov 14

Mixers, RFID, Demodulation

Lockin amplifier

Analog/Digital

 
Nov 16 Demodulation Analog/Digital

hw6

Due Dec 6

Solutions

14 Nov 19                                   Fall Break                                                  
Nov 27

                                  Fall Break

15 Nov 28 Lab time Analog/Digital  
Nov 30

Lab time

Analog/Digital

Lab 5 report 

Due Dec 2

16 Dec 5 Lab time Analog/Digital  
Dec 7 Review

Analog/Digital

 

    Final Exam, Wednesday, Dec 14, 7-10 PM