Physics 327 (Spring 2018):
"Modern
Instrumentation"
Instructor: |
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Office: |
Serin W119 |
e-mail |
podzorov AT
physics.rutgers.edu |
Office Hour: |
please arrange by
e-mail |
TA: |
Aditya Ballal |
Office: |
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e-mail: |
ballal AT
physics.rutgers.edu |
Office Hour: |
please arrange by
e-mail |
Meeting Times:
Lecture (for all sections): |
Wed 6:40pm - 8:00pm |
SEC 208 |
Lab Sec. 3 (Podzorov) |
Mon 6:40pm - 9:30pm |
Serin 101 |
Lab Sec. 1 (Ballal) |
Tue 10:20am - 1:20pm |
Serin 101 |
Lab Sec. 2 (Ballal) |
Tue 3:20pm - 6:20pm |
Serin 101 |
Lab Sec. 4 (Ballal) |
Thu 6:40pm - 9:30pm |
Serin 101 |
Textbook:
An
Introduction to Modern Electronics,
by William L. Faissler, Wiley, 1 edition (March 5, 1991)
You
can find it at Amazon
or Rutgers
book stores (Semester: SPRING 2016, Physics Department code: 750, Course:
327, sections 1,2,3,4)
COURSE
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1.
First Lecture is on Wed. Jan. 17, 6:40-8:00 pm. We will have one lecture per week, every week (even when we
have a two-week lab).
All lectures are in SEC-208 (Busch Campus) for all sections.
2.
The Labs start the following week (Jan. 22, 23, 25). All labs are in SERIN
Physics (main physics building) in rm. 101 (first floor, entrance from the Allison Road). Make sure to come to the Lab section you
are registered for.
3. Some
details of what to watch out for while preparing your lab reports - download
doc file.
4. Occasionally, we will have unannounced quizzes at the beginning of lectures on the material from the previous lecture(s). Quizzes contribute substantially to your final grade, so come prepared.
5. Students can review their ongoing grades online by logging into Rutgers Physics grade-book with their Rutgers NetID and password:
https://gbook.physics.rutgers.edu/gbook/student.pl?327&semester=spring2018
Course
Schedule (NOTE: we will have one lecture every week,
even when we are having a two-week lab):
Lab No. |
Topic |
Lecture/Labs |
Read Chapters |
Suggested Problems |
DC Voltage divider (1 week lab) |
Jan 17/Jan 22,23,25 |
2-6 15-16 |
4.10-4.12 5.1 6.6 |
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AC, Capacitance, Impedance (1 week lab) |
Jan 24/Jan 29,30, Feb 1 |
7-9 12 17 51 53 |
7.1 7.4 8.5 9.1 12.2 |
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RLC Resonance (1 week lab) |
Jan 31/Feb 5,6,8 |
8-12 |
12.1, 11.2 12.6 |
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Diode and Transistor (2 week lab) |
Feb 7/Feb 12,13,15 Feb 14/Feb 19,20,22 |
40-45 |
44.1-44.3 |
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Operational Amplifier |
Feb 21/Feb 26,27, Mar 1 Feb 28/Mar 5,6,8 |
28-31 |
29.3-29.6 |
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Difference and Instrumentation Amplifiers (2 week lab) |
Mar 7/Mar 19,20,22 (Mar 12-16 is
Spring Break) Mar 21/Mar 26,27,29 |
29 31 32 |
31.3 31.4 |
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Digital Basics: Timers, Counters (1 week lab) |
Mar 28/Apr 2,3,5 |
19 21-24 |
21.1 23.4 |
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DAC, ADC (1 week lab) |
Apr 4/Apr 9,10,12 |
34-36, 54 |
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LabView, GPIB (1 week
lab) |
Apr 11/Apr 16,17,19 |
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Extra week to finalize all unfinished labs |
No Lecture/Labs: Apr 23,24,26 |
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Last chance (!) to finish and submit all work |
Apr 30, May 1,3 |
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Course Goal:
The goal of this class is to learn a number of basic
electronic components and their analysis, so that you can understand and build
circuits for use in physics experiments. You should normally perform laboratory
experiments with a partner(s). You must share all phases
of the experimental work, so all the partners understand the entire experiment.
Each partner must participate actively in building the circuits, taking
measurements and interpreting the data. Each student must keep his (her) own
notes and prepare individual lab reports (no copying of reports from a
partner is allowed!). The ideal lab reports have to be brief (3-5 pages),
neat, and complete.
Preparation for the
Labs:
The lab instructions
are available at the course home page. You are expected to read and understand
these instructions before coming to the lab. In addition, you are expected to
read and understand the suggested chapters of the textbook prior to the lab
(see the schedule for detailed reading assignments). Being prepared for the
labs will make your learning experience satisfying and will save your time and
improve your grade.
Lab Reports:
Lab reports are to
be prepared individually and handed in during the next lab session, i.e. in a
week for the one-week labs and in 2 weeks for the two-week labs. The report
must be typed; the graphs are to be generated using Origin (highly preferred).
Drawings and circuit diagrams can be neatly drawn and labeled by hand. Late
reports will be accepted up to one week after the due date, but will have to be
penalized by a 30% grade reduction. Maximum mark for each lab is 15. No carbon copies of the
reports will be accepted. Do not write a report if
you have not actually done the lab: it will not be accepted. Write the report
so that the reader can understand what you did, what you measured, and what
theory predicted, etc. The report must be brief, yet fairly self-sufficient. Do
not simply copy the lab instructions of excerpts from the textbook into your
report, unless these are formulas or circuits diagrams. Your report should have
the following structure:
Introduction: Clearly state the objective(s), and a short explanation of the
theoretically background, if appropriate. To avoid redundancy, do not copy the
entire lab description in your report.
Experimental
Method: Brief description of the equipment used and
the experimental procedures followed must be included. Also include accurate
neatly-drawn circuit diagrams. Do not include your results in this section.
Results and Discussion: Show the data
obtained in numbered tables and figures. All quantities have to be given with
the correct units. Omitted units may result in a lower grade. The figures must
have appropriate axis labels with units. If drawings of observed
effects/waveforms clarify your data description, include them. Analyze the
data, including pertinent equations, calculated numbers, discussion of what
observations and measurements mean. Discuss what was expected and how well the
experiment agrees with the theory. Do not give more significant figures than
warranted by the accuracy of your measurements. Include an elementary error
analysis where appropriate.
Conclusions: Discuss if the goals set forth were met. Often, the obtained data are
somewhat different from what was expected. In this case, you should try to
understand why and justify your conclusion.
Quizzes:
Short quizzes will be given occasionally during
the lecture. They will not be announced. Topics to be quizzed are the lecture
contents and reading assignments. Make-up quizzes will not be offered,
unless you have a documented medical reason for missing a quiz.
Grading:
The course grade
will be primarily based on the lab reports (about 70%), with remainder
determined by lab preparation and participation, quiz scores, and lecture
attendance.
Students with Disabilities:
If you have a disability, you
are urged to visit the following web site to make the necessary arrangements to
support a successful learning experience:
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/disabilities.html
A Brief Guide to Debugging:
Generally we are going to set up
circuits with wires and components arranged on a bread-board or prototype
board. The components range from simple passive resistors to active chips with
tens of inputs and outputs. When you set up a circuit the first time, it often
does not work as you think it should. Then you need to debug it, i.e., figure
out why the circuit is behaving as it is instead of as it should.
To
make the debugging less painful:
1. Arrange the circuit neatly on the prototyping board so that you can trace where wires go and hook up the circuit correctly.
2. Understand the circuit: Figure out before the lab what you should see when you make the stated measurements.
3. Understand your equipment: Common examples of mistakes include measuring the wrong voltage with an oscilloscope, because the input was AC-coupled instead of DC-coupled, or incorrectly using a DVM to measure current.
4. Are all the wires connected? Check voltage levels and signal shapes at various points and determine if they are as they should be.
5. Is the individual component what you think it is, resistor, capacitor, inductor, op amp, etc? You can measure the resistance of a resistor. For a complicated chip, first check that all inputs are hooked up correctly. If the chip pops, the circuit is not hooked up correctly, and you should figure out why rather than popping more. If you have a few bad (non-popping) chips in a row, it is probable that the circuit is hooked up incorrectly.
6. If the circuit is complicated,
build parts of it first and test each part separately.