Examples will be chosen to show the usefulness of the computer for solving long or difficult physics problems using mathematics. Offered on demand. Lectures deal with the understanding, design and use of basic electronic circuits, including passive networks, transducers, current and voltage amplifiers. The fundamentals of transistors, operational amplifiers, digital logic and scientific instrumentation circuits are described. Experimental work covers transistors, current and voltage sources, operational amplifier applications, timers, transducers, digital logic and computer circuits.
Emphasis is on using integrated circuits.
The course includes two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory work per week. Required in the field of concentration. Fall, even-numbered years. Dealing with both statics and dynamics, they are essentially Newtonian mechanics, but concepts necessary to relativity and quantum mechanics are included. MTH 340 is related and may be taken simultaneously.