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The First TransistorThe first transistor was built by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, and demonstrated on Christmas Eve of 1947. These scientists won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. The "Conroe XE" incarnation of the Intel Core 2 Duo processor contains roughly 291 million transistors and occupies far less volume. |
The Physics 361 (Electronics Laboratory I) Web Site for Fall Semester 2006Physics 361 is a hands-on lab experience providing instruction and acquaintance with electronic devices and instrumentation techniques important in the modern physics laboratory. 3 semester hours credit; 6 hours laboratory/discussion per week. Announcements and NewsImportant announcements and news will appear here on a regular basis. Check here often! September 21, 2006Schedule Update The course schedule (found through the link in the navigation panel above) has been updated to reflect the reality of the past few weeks and to fix the contradictions between the original schedule and the list of lab exercises contained in the Lab Notes section. The schedule will probably change again, but hopefully not for a few more weeks. September 21, 2006Unit 2 Notes The notes for Unit 2 on DC amplifiers and DC aspects of operational amplifiers is in the Lab Notes section and was just updated (and hopefully improved). August 21, 2006Welcome to Electronics Lab for Fall, 2005! The first meeting of Electronics Lab is Thursday, August 24, at 12:40 p.m. in Nielsen Physics Room 605. IMPORTANT: Click on Policies in the navigation bar above and read the policies page. August 21, 2006One of my goals is to keep this course modern and up-to-date. In laboratory electronics, this means an increasing use of computer-based data acquisition techniques. It is also important to gain an understanding of the circuit-level electronics that underlies data acquisition, and to be able to craft add-on circuitry that tailors off-the-shelf data acquisition and instrumentation products to your specific needs. At our first class meeting, and for the first few weeks, we will review and apply some of the physics of electric circuits that you studied in introductory classes (Physics 136 or 138, for example). As the semester unfolds, we will gradually introduce a graphical programming language for data acquisition known as LabView. Having experience with this language is a definite asset for your resume when it comes time to hunt for a job or to get an assistantship in a research lab. The time you spend with LabView in this course won't really be enough to qualify you in quite this way, but it will be a start, and you can get more experience with LabView in Physics 362 and/or in other, more advanced lab courses. But that experience does (or can) start here. One more time --- Welcome to Electronics Lab!
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