Labs - Spring 2008

Labs Meet noon to 3pm and 3pm to 6pm on Tuesdays, room G003 Fisher Hall.
Lab reports are due at the beginning of the next lab period unless you are notified otherwise.
Each student should submit their own report (not group reports).
Information on lab report format will be available at the 1st lab.
For make-ups, etc., and other special arrangements/requests, plead your case to the lab instructor(s).

Lab List

Note: these pdf files will be updated for 2008 as the term progresses. You are welcomed to look at last year's but be aware that they may change. You will be handed a hard copy of the updated version before the lab starts and so there is no reason to print these out.
Lab write-ups in pdf format
(password required for access)

(subject to change, additions, substitutions)
1. Resistances and the Scope
2. Precision Resistance Measurement (Wheatstone Bridge)
3. The Resistivity of Metals (Kelvin Bridge)
4. RLC Circuits
5. The Dielectric Constant of Liquid Nitrogen
6. Diodes - Making a Simple D.C. Power Supply
7. FET Amplifier
8.
 
Transistor Amplifier
     Log-Log paper for this lab (pdf)
9. Operational Amplifiers
10. Audio Communications on an Infrared Beam
11. Lecture Sized Voltmeter and a Laser Guided Missile
12. Digital Gates
13. Home Security System


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