Design Like a Physicist
Physics 398DLP, Fall 2019
Loomis 276, Friday afternoons, 1 pm - 5 pm
3 credit hours
Course documents
Course packet and in-class material
- ⚛ Course packet, including a C++/Python refresher
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2018 "How to Present a Physics Talk"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2019 "How to Write a Technical Report"
- ⚛ Prof. Cynthia D'Angelo's fall 2019 presentation: "Collaboration"
Student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues
- Week 3:
⚛ How an electret microphone works (group 1);
⚛ What's inside an LSM9DS1 9 DOF sensor, and how its 3-axis accelerometer works (group 4);
- Week 4:
⚛ How a BME680 measures atmospheric pressure (group 2).
⚛ An introduction to the Arduino Mega 2560 (group 3);
- Week 5:
⚛ How a successive approximation ADC works (group 1);
⚛ How a BME680 measures temperature (group 4).
- Week 6:
⚛ I2C communication protocol (group 3);
⚛ How a BME680 measures humidity (group 2);
- Week 7:
⚛How the MCP4725 DAC works (group 4).
⚛ Interrupts (group 1);
- Week 9:
⚛ Adafruit's "Ultimate GPS" breakout board (group 3);
⚛ How a BME680 measures atmospheric volatile organic compound concentrations (group 2).
- Week 10:
⚛ Atmel 2560 microcontroller timer modules (group n);
⚛ PWM (pulse width modulation) and the PAM8302 amplifier (group p);
- Week 11:
⚛ How the PM2.5 particulates monitor works (group q).
⚛ How the LSM9DS1's 3-axis gyroscope works (group r);
- Week 12:
⚛ VL53L0X Time of Flight Distance Sensor (group s);
⚛ High speed microSD data transfer issues (group t).
Project reports
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⚛ I will post these at the end of the term.