Physics3420
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Physics 3420
Spring 2008
Gerald Hardie
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Physics
3420 Syllabus
- Textbooks:
- Getting Started With MAPLE
- Cheung, Keough and May
- Wiley
- Physics 3420 Laboratory Manual
- Physics 3420 Course Pack
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- Reference: Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory (8th Ed.)
- Boylestad and Nashelsky
- Prentice Hall
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- Instructor:
- Gerald Hardie
- 2223 Everett Tower
- Telephone: 387-4948
- Fax :
387-4939
- E-mail: gerald.hardie@wmich.edu
- Classes:
- Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 11:00-11:50
- 2211 Rood Hall
- Laboratory:
- Your laboraory write-up is due Monday before
12:00 on the week
following
- the laboratory.
- Final Exam:
- A comprehensive final exam will be given on Thursday,
April
25 from 10:15-12:15am
- Problems:
- You will be required to submit solutions to Hand-In
assignments..
- SOLUTIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ON TIME!!!!
- Grades:
- Your grade will be based on the following:
- Regular exams.................................55%
- Comprehensive final........................15%
- Laboratory.......................................15%
- Hand-In Assign................................15%
- Grading Scale:
- 90-99...............A
- 83-89.............BA
- 76-82...............B
- 69-75.............CB
- 62-68...............C
- 55-61.............DC
- 48-54...............D
- Purpose:
- a) To introduce students to circuit components and
- analysis.
- b) To teach students to handle equipment intelligently.
- c) By the end of the course the students should be able
- to follow descriptions of circuits, such as are
often
- given in instruction manuals.
- d) Students should be able to do simple trouble-shooting
- and repair.
- e) Although students will not be design engineers at the
- end of the course, they should be able to do simple design
- work.
Assignments
| DAY |
DATE |
HANDIN |
TEST |
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wed
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Jan. 23 |
01 |
01 |
wed
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Jan. 30
|
02 |
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wed
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Feb. 06
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03 |
02
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wed
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Feb. 13 |
04 |
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wed
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Feb. 20
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05 |
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wed
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Feb. 27
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03
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wed
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Mar. 12 |
06 |
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wed
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Mar. 19
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07 |
04
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wed
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Apr. 02
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08
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| wed. |
Apr 09
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09
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05
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mon
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Apr. 14
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10 |
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SUBJECT
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PROBLEM SETS
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| DC CIRCUITS |
Prob. sets 1,2 |
| AC CIRCUITS |
Prob. sets 3,4 |
| AC CIRCUITS |
Prob. sets 5,6 |
| DIODES |
Prob. set 7 |
| TRANSISTORS |
Prob sets 8,9 |
| FET |
Prob. set 10 |
| FEEDBACK |
Prob. set 11 |
| OP-AMPS |
Prob. set 12 |
| OSCILLATORS |
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