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Bioe 1310 - Linear Systems and Electronics I - Fall 2023

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This Year's Schedule

 
Date Lecture Reading Homework and Labs Slides and Reviews
Tu 8/29

SECTION 1: DC

Lecture 1 - Current, Voltage, Ohm's Law, Power, Kirchoff's Laws, safety.
Scherz 2.1-2.19 (2.4, 2.8 optional); Shaum Ch 1-3.

No lab or homework this week, just familiarize yourself with the Falstad Virtual Circuit Website and watch the short videos below.         

Virtual Circuit (falstad) Website


Virtual Circuit Videos (don't worry if you don't understand the circuit theory yet...)

 

 
Th 8/31 Lecture 2 - Ideal voltage and current sources, series/parallel, ground, voltage and current dividers, real voltage and current sources, , more about power resistivity, potentiometers.    
Tu 9/5 Lecture 3 - Simplifying resistor networks, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, superposition. Shaum Ch 4-5. Lab 1 - Using the breadboard  meter and soldering iron. Batteries and resistor networks.
 
 
Th 9/7 Lecture 4 - More superposition, meshes, galvinometer, Wheatstone bridge, regulated power supply.
Scherz 2.20-2.25
Shaum Ch 8-9

Section 1: DC
Last Year's Slides
Tu 9/12

SECTION 2: AC

Lecture 5- AC circuits, capacitors and inductors, magic of sinusoids.
Scherz 2.26-2.27
Shaum Ch 10-11 (disregard Phasors on p. 221)
Lab 2 - Potentiometers and the Wheatstone bridge.


 
Th 9/14 Lecture 6 - Complex exponentials, Euler's Identity, phasors, building sinusoids from pairs of phasors.
Complex Algebra Reviews:
Hsu
Nearing
 
Tu 9/19

Lecture 7 - Complex impedance, Phasor notation, superposition of phasors and thus sinusoids
Phasor Notation Manifesto

Scherz 2.30-2.30.1 (Input/Output Impedance), 2.33 - p.216 (2-port filters) Lab 3 - Measuring Capacitor Discharge 
Tektronix Scope Manual
Th 9/21 Lecture 8 - Fourier series and transform, frequency repsonse of systems.
Fourier Series Demo
Scherz 2.35 (Fourier Series)

 
Tu 9/26 Lecture 9 - RC Filters, decibels, Bode Plots, RMS values, AC power, transformers. Scherz 2.32 (Decibels), Lab 4 - Audio Amplifier Section 2: AC
Last Year'sSlides
Th 9/28

SECTION 3: Non-Linear and Sensors

Lecture 10 - Non-linear components, diodes, triodes, bipolar transistors.
Scherz 4.1-4.2 (Diodes), 4.3.2 (biopolar transistors).
Tu 10/3

Lecture 11 - Gain, switches, relays, buzzers, latches, flip-flops, thermistors, photosensors, LEDs.

Scherz 5-5.3.4 (LEDs), 5.4-5.7, 5.9 (photosensors).

Lab 5 - RC Filters
Worksheet
Section 3: NonLinear & Sensors
Last Year'sSlides
Th 10/5

SECTION 4: Op Amps

Lecture 12 - Operational amplifiers intro, comparators, thermoregulation hysteresis.
Scherz 8 (Op Amps)
Tu 10/10 EXAM 1
through Lab 5,
Sections 1-2


Equations
  Lab 6 - Diodes and Transistors  
Th 10/12 Lecture 13 - Full Operational amplifiers.    
Tu 10/17 Lecture 14 - More op amps, sinusoidal oscillator, Laplace transform, current-to-voltage and voltage-to-current converters, non-linear op amp circuits.   Lab 7 - Comparators, Photoresistors, Thermistors, and Hysteresis  
Th 10/19 Lecture 15- More op amps differential amps, H-bridge amps, examples of inverse impedance circuits.   Section 4: Op Amps
Last Year'sSlides
Tu 10/24

SECTION 5: Digital

Lecture 16 - Intro to Digital. Boolean logic, gates. Binary, hexadecimal, ASCII, adders, serial and parallel, flip-flops, shift registers, ripple counters.

Scherz 12.1-12.3, (digital), 12.6.3, 12.6.4 (flip-flops). Lab 8 - Op Amps and Analog Computers  
Th 10/26 Lecture 17 - State machines, synchronous counters, encoders, decoders, memory, CPU, operational codes, computer architecture, operational codes, programming languages and environments.    
Tu 10/31 Lecture 18 - More computers: hardware, FETs, MOSFETs, CMOS, FPGA, DSP, A/D, D/A, Digital dynamic range and noise, Nyquist, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing. Schrertz 4.3.4 (MOSFETs) Make-up Lab.  
Th 11/2
  Section 5: Digital
Last Year'sSlides
Tu 11/7 EXAM 2
Cumulative, through Lab 8,
Sections 1-4


 

 

 
Th 11/9

SECTION 6: Other

Lecture 19 - High Frequency, shielding, waves, cables, characteristic impedance, impedance matching, radio, antennae, microwave, Huygens' Principle, field paterns, phased arrays, lasers.

Schertz 3.1.5
Tu 11/14 Lecture 20- Voltages in biology and chemistry, batteries, thermocouples, tribolelectirc effect, Nernst equation and action potentials, biological sensing of electric and magnetic fields. Schertz 3.2

 

 
Th 11/16

Lecture 21 - Piezoelectric transducers, strain gages, variations on the light bulb, radiation detectors, recorded sound, microphones, loudspeakers, radio modulation and demodulation.

   
Su 11/19 - Su 11/26

Thanksgiving Recess

     
Tu 11/28 Lecture 22 - Magnetic sensors, linear actuators, motors, MEMS, distance measurement, optical encoders.  

Lab 9 - Digital Circuits: Flip Flops, One-Shot, Shift Register, Ripple Counter

Homework 9 - Virtual Digital Circuits

 
Th 11/30   
Tu 12/5     Lab 10 - MOSFETs, static electricity  
Th 12/7  Stetten talk on Deep Submersible Alvin, the Telemetric Egg, etc. Non on Exam.  Section 6: Other
Last Year'sSlides
Mo 12/11 - Fr 12/15 Final Exam
Cumulative,
All Labs and Homework
Sections 1-6

Equations