PHYS 402 - Electronics for Scientists Please note that this is a generic syllabus describing the general content of the course.
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Please see the course-specific homepage or contact your instructor for more information. Physics 402 is a one-semester electronics laboratory course which provides a survey of modern electronics from the point of view of data acquisition. The course covers a wide range of topics including a review of basic analog electronics concepts, Fourier series application in electronics, digital data acquisition, analog and digital use of non-linear components, digital circuit analysis, and introduction to microprocessors. The format is intended to acquaint the student with digital data acquisition equipment and software in the first wek of the course and to use this type of equipment in the weekly laboratory sessions for studying the various electronics concepts and devices. The laboratory has been equipped with a VME data acquisition system.