part I. Lectures. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Laws of the land -- 1.2. The voltage divider (You can't believe how important this is!) -- 1.3. Mr Th�evenin and his amazing equivalent circuit -- 1.4. Input and output impedances -- 1.5. Error propagation 2. RC circuits -- 2.1. R and C -- 2.2. RC filters -- 2.3. Doing calculus with R and C 3. Diodes and transistors -- 3.1. Signal diodes -- 3.2. Zener diodes -- 3.3. Bipolar junction transistors 4. Op amps I -- 4.1. Op amp basics -- 4.2. Examples 5. Op amps II : non-ideal behavior and positive feedback -- 5.1. Non-ideal behavior -- 5.2. Positive feedback 6. Digital gates : combinational and sequential logic -- 6.1. Counting in different bases -- 6.2. Binary arithmetic -- 6.3. Gates and truth tables -- 6.4. Combining outputs -- 6.5. Sequential logic -- 6.6. Counters -- 6.7. Latches -- 6.8. Monostable multivibrators 7. Digital-analog, analog-digital, and phase-locked loops -- 7.1. Digital-analog conversion -- 7.2. Analog-digital conversion -- 7.3. Phase-locked loops -- 7.4. Phase-sensitive detection (lock-in amplifiers) 8. Embedded electronics -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Inside the Beagle -- 8.3. The pins -- 8.4. Loading a DTO -- 8.5. Configuring the general purpose input/output pins -- 8.6. Pulse width modulation (PWM) -- 8.7. Buses part II. Lab manual. 9. Getting started -- 9.1. Use of the lab manual -- 9.2. Maintaining a lab book -- 9.3. Use of general laboratory equipment -- 9.4. Play! 10. R and C -- 10.1. Low-pass filter -- 10.2. High-pass filter -- 10.3. Differentiator -- 10.4. Integrator 11. Transistors -- 11.1. Emitter follower -- 11.2. Input and output impedance of follower -- 11.3. Single-supply follower -- 11.4. Push-pull follower -- 11.5. Common emitter amplifier -- 11.6. Bypassed emitter amplifier -- 11.7. Current source (sink) 12. Op amps I -- 12.1. Open-loop test circuit -- 12.2. Inverting amplifier -- 12.3. Non-inverting amplifier -- 12.4. Follower -- 12.5. Current source -- 12.6. Summing amplifier -- 12.7. Push-pull follower -- 12.8. Integrator -- 12.9. Differentiator -- 12.10. Active rectifier -- 12.11. Improved active rectifier -- 12.12. Active clamp 13. Op amps II : positive feedback, good and bad -- 13.1. Comparators -- 13.2. The RC relaxation oscillator -- 13.3. RC relaxation oscillator using the 7555 -- 13.4. Sine wave oscillator : Wien bridge -- 13.5. Op amp instability : phase shift can make an op amp oscillate 14. Digital gates : combinational and sequential logic -- 14.1. Gates and truth tables -- 14.2. Multiplexer -- 14.3. Sequential logic : JK flip-flop -- 14.4. Debouncing -- 14.5. D-type flip-flop -- 14.6. Programmable divide-by-N counter 15. Digital-analog, analog-digital, and phase-locked loops -- 15.1. Digital-analog conversion -- 15.2. Tracking analog-digital converter -- 15.3. Phase-locked loop : frequency multiplier -- 15.4. Phase sensitive detection : lock-in amplifiers (optional lab) 16. Embedded electronics, featuring the Beaglebone Black -- 16.1. Getting started -- 16.2. Input/output -- 16.3. Pulse width modulation (PWM) -- 16.4. Controlling the GPIO pins -- 16.5. Get on the bus! part III. Solutions to homework. 17. RC circuits -- 18. Diodes and transistors -- 19. Op amps 1 -- 20. Op-amps 2 -- 21. Digital gates -- 22. Digital-analog, analog-digital and phase-locked loops -- part IV. Appendices.
This book is different to other electronics texts available. First, it is short. Created for a one-semester course taken by physics students, both undergraduate and graduate it includes only the essentials and covers those topics only as deeply as needed in order to understand the material in the integrated laboratory exercises. Unlike many electronics texts for physics students, this one does not delve into the physics of devices. Instead, these are largely treated as black boxes having certain properties that are important to know for designing circuits. The physics comes when the students use their acquired electronics instrumentation knowledge to construct apparatus to make measurements. Since the detailed physics has been left out, this book should be equally useful for students in any of the physical or life sciences. This is the first textbook aimed at the non-electrical engineering student, that has both the generality on analog and digital electronics circuits, coupled to the very timely technology of embedded electronics. The book also features homework exercises, parts list and a suite of useful appendices.
Undergrad and graduate university students in pure and applied sciences. Need trig, calculus for portions of the material.
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Brett DePaola is a Professor of Physics at Kansas State University. He received his BS and MS in Physics from Miami University, and his PhD in Physics from The University of Texas at Dallas. Professor DePaola's research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics covers a wide range of topics, from ion-atom collisions to coherent control using ultra-short laser pulses. The over-arching theme is the understanding of basic physical processes at the atomic level. His most recent research explores how modulating the spectral phase of ultra-short laser pulses affects coherent excitation in atoms and simple molecules. Professor DePaola has made seminal contributions to the measurement technique known as MOTRIMS, in which ultra-cold technologies are combined with charged particle technologies to create a powerful diagnostic of ion-atom and photon-atom dynamics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has won numerous teaching awards and given invited lectures world-wide. He has held Visiting Professor positions at universities in Denmark and Germany, spent time as a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN in Japan, and was a Visiting JILA Fellow in Boulder, Colorado.