Office hours:
Professor Dan Dessau: Mondays, 4:00-5:00, in Gamow F625, or by appointment
Professor Debbie Jin: Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00, in JILA A600, or by appointment
Professor Heather Lewandowski: Mondays, 3:00-4:00, in JILA A907, or by appointment
Class Announcements:
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11/21: Project Presentation Schedule is posted here.
11/6: The Midterm Exam is Thursday, November 9th, 1:00-1:50, in the JILA Auditorium. There will be a review for the exam on Tues, Nov. 7th, 1:00-1:50, in the JILA Auditorium.
8/30: Clicker registration will become live this afternoon. Please use your clicker even if you have not yet registered! Clicker data is automatically saved whenever your clicker is used.
8/29: We will be using "clicker" technology. Clickers (remote transmitters) are available in the bookstore (clicker must have 2 LEDs on the front).
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Welcome to Physics 3330! In the first week of the course we will be learning about electronic test equipment like oscilloscopes and signal generators. Don't be alarmed by the picture above; we have the latest color digital 'scopes in the 3330 lab. In the second week will will learn about dc measurements and bridge techniques.
Our first lecture will be on Tuesday, August 29, 1:00-1:50 pm in in the JILA auditorium. The labs in Duane G-230 start on Thursday, Aug. 31 for the Thursday section and Tuesday, September 5 for the Tuesday sections. Our text will be "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. Everything else you need for the course can be accessed through the links to the left. Read the Syllabus before the first lecture, and read Experiment #1 in the lab manual and complete the prelab problem set before your first lab.
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The famous Tektronix 545 oscilloscope from 1957 sported 30 MHz of vertical bandwidth and more than 100 vacuum tubes. It used a sophisticated six-stage balanced distributed amplifier. The apex of vacuum tube scope design was reached by about 1963 with the Tektronix 585A, offering 85 MHz bandwidth. For more about early scopes, look here, or check out the article by John Addis in the book "Analog Circuit Design - Art, Science, and Personalities" on our reading list.
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