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2024-2025 University Catalog

PHYS 311 - Electronics for Scientists

Units: 4

Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC

Three lectures and three hours of laboratory.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 196  and PHYS 196L  with a grade C or higher in both.

Series/parallel circuits, Kirchhoff’s law, Maxwell’s loop, voltage dividers, Thevenin and Norton circuits, RC, RL and RLC circuits, Analog and digital scopes, Coaxial lines, Semiconductor devices: diodes and transistors, operational amplifiers and limitations, ADC, Digital sampling theory, Limitations of measurement instrumentation.