Electronics for Scientists

Catalog description

Circuit and network theory; active devices; amplifiers; introduction to digital electronics; noise theory. PHYS 402 Electronics for Scientists (4) A junior-senior theory/laboratory course providing a survey of modern electronics from a data acquisition and analysis point of view. One of several possible lab-based courses taken by physics majors in several options to satisfy a lab requirement, typically taken by physics majors in their senior year. This course is very useful for students interested in experimental research work and includes examples such as digital data acquisition, the lab study of various electronic devices, fast Fourier transform methods and other topics.