I. About this course.

Physics 605 is a lab course on basic electronics for scientists. The course is designed to make you familiar with the use of electronics in a laboratory settings. You will be studying some circuit theory and you are expected to spend a significant amount of time in the lab learning about test equipment and circuits and conduction your own electronics experiments.

This year we will be adding a significant component of data acquisition to the course and we are moving to a more modern use of electronics. You will be programming microcomputers and micro-controllers and using them to perform measurements.

Since this is a complete make-over of Experimental Physics 1, I would like to ask for your collaboration and patience. It is quite likely that there will be times that things don’t work out as expected, and times that you will need to use all the resources you have available to debug some problem. This is what real labs are like, they are about solving real problems. The good news is that if you properly document your struggles in your reports, this will be taken into account in your grade. Please provide me with feedback throughout the semester on how I can improve the course.

This course does not meet an Inquiry, Discovery Program or Writing Intensive requirements.

Read the rest of the syllabus here.