PHY 202: Course Calendar
(Basic Electronics)

Jan. 20 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. 27.
Jan. 27 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 Feb 3.
Feb. 3 Lecture 3: Capacitors including RC Circuits
Lab 3: Capacitors including RC Circuits
Homework: Read Chapter 3 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Feb. 10.
Feb. 10 Cancelled due to blizzard:
Homework: Read Chapter 4 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Feb. 17.
Feb. 17 Lecture 5:Semiconductors and Diodes
Lab 4-5: Power, Simulated RC, Diodes
Homework: Read Chapter 5 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due in two weeks, Mar. 3. Next week is Test 1 on Lectures and Labs 1-4.
Feb. 24 Tentative date for Test 1
Mar. 3 Lecture 6:Transformers
Lab 6: Transformers
Homework: Read Chapter 6 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due in two weeks, Mar. 17. Next week is Spring Break
Mar. 10 Spring Break
Mar. 17 Lecture 7:Inductors
Lab 7: Inductors
Homework: Read Chapter 7 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Mar. 24.
Mar. 24 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. 31.
Mar. 31 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. 14. Test 2 is tentatively next week.
Apr. 7 Tentative date for Test 2
Apr. 14 Lecture 10: A-to-D and Multivibrators
Lab 10: A-to-D and Multivibrators
Homework: Read Chapter 10 of The Chip, write a one-page summary of it (in your own words). Due Apr. 21.
Apr. 21 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. 28.
Apr. 28 Evaluations
Lab 12: Ripple Adder

Head start
May 5 Test 3


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