PHYS 311 Electronics for Scientists Fall 2006 Course Information

• Class Meetings
  Mon 2:30-5:20 pm & Tue 9:00-11:50 am,  in Mainiero Building 60

• Instructor
  Dr. Jusak Tandean
  • Office: Mainiero 152C
  • Office hours: MWF 10:00-11:00 am, or by appointment
  • Phone: (909) 593-3511 x4125
  • E-mail: jtandean@ulv.edu

• Required Textbook
  D.M. Kaplan & C.G. White, Hands-On Electronics (Cambridge, 2003), ISBN 0521893518
  available at ULV bookstore and online stores

• Recommended Textbooks
  
  • P. Horowitz & W. Hill, The Art of Electronics, Second Edition (Cambridge, 1989), ISBN 0521370957
    
  • T.C. Hayes & P. Horowitz, Student Manual for The Art of Electronics (Cambridge, 1989), ISBN 0521377099
    
  • R.T. Paynter, Introductory Electronic Devices and Circuits: Conventional Flow Version, Seventh Edition (Prentice Hall, 2006), ISBN 0131716417

• Course Schedule   including helpful web-links

• Homework Assignments

• Solutions   to homework, class quizzes, and exams

• Introduction handout

• Relevant Websites
  • Accuracy vs. Precision in measurements
  • Error Analysis in Experimental Physical Science and more on Error Analysis
  • Using a multimeter and an oscilloscope
  • BK Precision Application Notes
  • Electronic Teaching Assistant
  • Wikipedia articles on resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors
  • Transistorized! The history of the invention of the transistor
  • Information on various semiconductor devices
  • Semiconductor Applets
  • Digital Circuit Builder
  • The Electronics Calculator Website
  • Javascript Calculators
  • How metal detectors & radio work
  • DatasheetArchive.com has specifications of many components

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