PHY 202: Course Calendar
(Basic Electronics)

Jan. 15 Course Syllabus
Lecture 1: Resistors in series and parallel
Lab 1: Resistors in series and parallel
Making an XY Scatter plot in old Excel (2003 and previous)
Making an XY Scatter plot in Excel 2007
Homework: Read and summarize Chapter 1 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Jan. 22.
Jan. 22 Lecture 2: Combinations of Resistors (including Kirchhoff's rules)
Lab 2: Combinations of Resistors
Excel for Kirchhoff
Homework: Read and summarize Chapter 2 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Jan. 29.
Jan. 29 Lecture 3: Meters, Power, etc.
Lab 3: Meters and Combinations of Resistors
Homework: Read Chapter 3 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Feb. 5.
Feb. 5 Lecture 4: Capacitors and RC circuits
Lab 4: Capacitors and RC circuits
Homework: Read Chapter 4 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Feb. 12.
Feb. 12 Lecture 5: Semiconductors and Diodes
Lab 5: Diodes
Homework: Read and summarize Chapter 5 of The Chip.
(Due in two weeks, Feb 26. Next week is Test 1 on Lectures and Labs 1-4.)
Feb. 19 Tentative date for Test 1
Feb. 26 Lecture 6: Transformers
Lab 6: Transformers
Homework: Read and summarize Chapter 6 of The Chip.
(Due in two weeks, Mar. 11. Next week is break.)
Mar. 4 Spring Break
Mar. 11 Lecture 7: Inductors
Lab 7: RL and LC circuits
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Homework: Read Chapter 7 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Mar. 18.
Mar. 18 Lecture 8: Transistors
Lab 8: Transistors
Homework: Read Chapter 8 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Mar. 25.
Mar. 25 Lecture 9: More on Transistors
Lab 9: More on Transistors
Homework: Read Chapter 9 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due in two weeks, Apr. 8. Test 2 is tentatively next week.
Apr. 1 Tentative date for Test 2
Apr. 8 Lecture 10: Analog to Digital and Multivibrators
Lab 10: Analog to Digital and Multivibrators

Homework: Read Chapter 10 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Apr. 15.
Apr. 15 Lecture 11: Karnaugh
Lab 11: Schmitt Trigger and Karnaugh

Homework: Read Chapter 11 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Apr. 22.
Apr. 22 Evaluations
Lab 12: Ripple Adder

Head start
Apr 29 Test 3


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