| Brandeis University | Physics 29a |
| Spring 2020 | Kevan Hashemi |
An introduction to analog and digital electronic circuits. Six scheduled hours a week, including one lecture and one quiz. Most scheduled time is spent in the electronics laboratory assembling and testing electronic circuits. Students should expect to spend another six hours outside class studying, preparing for the quiz, and consulting the instructors with their questions. Office hours and additional laboratory time will be available.
| Voltage, Current, and Resistors | Capacitors, Inductors, and Impedance | Frequency Response and Step Response |
| Diodes and Rectification | Transformers and Power Supplies | Transistors and Audio Amplifiers |
| Amplitude-Modulated Radio Reception | Operational Amplifiers | Combinatorial Logic |
| Oscillators and Clocks | Registers and Counters | Analog to Digital Conversion |
Prerequisites: You are automatically approved to take the course if you have taken the Physics 19 laboratory course in combination with either Physics 11 or Physics 15. The course requires that you solve differential equations and work with complex exponentials. If you do not have a background in physics, but are interested in taking the course, meet with the instructor to discuss the course requirements and obtain approval to take the course.
Notes: Lecture notes to accompany the course will be available on Latte a few days before each lecture, along with previous quiz questions for practice.
Text Book: This course has no required text book. Our on-line lecture notes are intended to act as a text book in themselves. Nevertheless, we recommend any edition of The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill to act as an electronics reference book for the long term.
Equipment: electronic components, wires, wire cutters, oscilloscope, voltmeter, breadboard, function generator, power supply, calculators and spreadsheets.
Time Commitment: Success in this four-credit-hour course is based on the expectation that students will spend a minimum of six hours of study time per week in preparation for class, which includes readings, papers, discussion sections, and preparation for exams.