ECE 323 Basic Electronics - Schedule Winter 2008

This schedule is tenative. It may be altered during the semester depending on circumstances.

1 Mon Jan 7 electric charges and current, power-of-ten prefixes, coulomb and amperes
2 Wed Jan 9 resistivity, resistor color code, two resistors in series and parallel
3 Fri Jan 11 Ohm's Law, Matlab examples, intro to Multisim
4 Mon Jan 14 basic circuits, transducers and sensors
5 Wed Jan 16 Kirchoff's Laws
6 Fri Jan 18 Lab 3 (voltage divider, Wheatstone bridge, op-amp), Resistive networks

MonJan 21Martin Luther King Day
7 Wed Jan 23 Examples, introduction to node analysis
8 Fri Jan 25 node voltage method
9 Mon Jan 28 intro to lab 4, mesh current method
10 Wed Jan 30 Thévenin/Norton circuits
11 Fri Feb 1 examples
12 Mon Feb 4 more examples
13 Wed Feb 6 Test 1
14 Fri Feb 8 capacitors
15 Mon Feb 11 capacitors, RC Circuits
16 Wed Feb 13 RC time constants
17 Fri Feb 15 magnetism, inductors
18 Mon Feb 18 Tesla, Master of Lightning
19 Wed Feb 20 Introduction to AC circuits
20 Fri Feb 22 SNOW CANCELLATION
21 Mon Feb 25 complex numbers, AC circuit elements, impedance
22 Wed Feb 27 digital logic, logic gates
23 Fri Feb 29 logic gates, 74LS logic family
24 Mon Mar 3 logic examples, switch logic
25 Wed Mar 5 switch logic, combinational logic
26 Fri Mar 7 combinational and sequential logic
27 Mon Mar 10 combinational logic
28 Wed Mar 12 review asgn7, sequential logic
29 Fri Mar 14 numbers in digital systems

MonMar 17 Midterm break

WedMar 19 Midterm break

FriMar 21 Midterm break

MonMar 24 Midterm break
30 Wed Mar 26 number conversions
31 Fri Mar 28 numbers
32 Mon Mar 31 Test 2
33 Wed Apr 2 numbers, amplifiers
34 Fri Apr 4 op-amps
35 Mon Apr 7 op-amp circuits
36 Wed Apr 9 video on vacuum tubes, "Electronics at Work" (1943)
37 Fri Apr 11 introduction to diodes
38 Mon Apr 14 recifier circuits, half-wave and full-wave
39 Wed Apr 16
40 Fri Apr 18
41 Mon Apr 21
42 Wed Apr 23

Wed Apr 30 (2:30-4:20 pm) Final

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Maintained by John Loomis, updated 14 April 2008