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PHY226 Electronics          Syllabus          Spring Quarter, 2017

Instructor:      Cheng Chin <cchin@uchicago.edu>

  Lectures:       Tue & Thur         10:30‐11:50 am        KPTC 105 

  Office hour:   Thur                    12:30‐01:30 pm        GCIS E107               

Teaching Assistants:

  Johnny Ho - johnnyho@uchicago.edu 
  Yin(Larry) Lin - yin01@uchicago.edu

Textbooks:  Learning the Art of Electronics by T. Hayes and P. Horowitz 

(Recomm.) The Art of Electronics, 3rd Ed., P. Horowitz and W. Hill 

Lab sessions:   (Mon & Wed) or (Tue & Thur)            1:30‐5:20 pm 

Attendance of all lab sessions is required. Lab reports should be turned in by the end of the sessions.

Mon & Wed: TA: Johnny Ho   KPTC208
Azzoni, Susanna   Bernstein, Mason   Goksu,Hazal   Killeen, Benjamin David   Koh, Dae Heun 
Mayer, Evan Charles   Shribak, Dmitry   Tibaldi,Simone   Volpert, Carrie Grace
 
Tu & Th: TAs: Yin(Larry) Lin and Wei Quan     KPTC208 and 210
Anischenko, Jonathan Michael   Berkhout, Lindsay Morgan   Cevallos, Ignacio Ignacio   Fieweger, Connor James 
Freed, Daniel Lawrence   Frez-Albrecht, Luca   Hall, Carter Carter   Lyo, Benjamin Sang-Hoon   Mata, Evan Andrew 
Peysakhovich, Barbara   Rebollo, Steve   Rhines, Thomas John   Smiley, Jake   Smith, Alex G   Wester, Thomas Benjamin
Mikhail Rezazadeh

Grades:           14 Lab reports: 70%; Midterm exam: 15%; Final: 15%

Class outline:                                                                                                                                                        

Week Date Lecture Lab Report
1 3/28 DC circuits ------ no lab ------  
  3/30 Capacitors and inductors ------ no lab ------  
2 4/4 Diodes Lab 1: DC circuits Report 1
  4/6 P-N physics Lab 2: Capacitors Report 2
3 4/11 Transistors I Lab 3: Diodes Report 3
  4/13 Transistors II Lab 4: Transistors I Report 4
4 4/18 Operational amplifiers I Lab 5: Transistors II  
  4/20 Operational amplifiers II Lab 5: Transistors III Report 5
5 4/25 Feedback Theory I Lab 6: Op-amp I Report 6
  4/27 Feedback Theory II Lab 7: Op-amp II Report 7
6 5/2

Preparation Sheet

Midterm (lec.1~10)

Temperature Servo I  
  5/4 Optoelectronics Temperature Servo II  
7 5/9 Optoelectronics Temperature Servo III Report 8 (10%)
  5/11 Analog meets digital Lab 13. Group Audio I  
8 5/16 Gates 14N.1-.5 Lab 13. Group Audio II Report 9
  5/18 Flip-flops 15L.1-.2, N.6-.7 Lab 13. Gates Report 10
9 5/23 Counters Lab 14. Flip-Flops Report 11
  5/25 FPGA FPGA  
10 5/30 EFI electronics shop tour TA: Johnny Ho FPGA Report 12
  6/1

Final preparation

Senior Final (lec.11~17): 10:30 am~12:30 pm, KPTC105, Proctor: Wei Quan

   
11 6/8 Final (lec.11~17): 10:30 am~12:30 pm, KPTC105 Proctor: Yin Lin