IntroductionOrganizationLAB SESSIONSLECTURESOFFICE HOURSWEEKLY WORK SCHEDULEPRE-LAB PROBLEMSLAB REPORTSPROJECTSTEXTBOOKLAB NOTEBOOKSFINAL EXAMGRADINGLAB RULESSafety in the LaboratoryGENERAL PRECAUTIONSELECTRICAL SAFETYTHE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC SHOCKTHE FATAL CURRENTIT'S THE CURRENT THAT KILLSDANGER -- LOW VOLTAGE!WHAT TO DO FOR VICTIMSSelected ReferencesEXPERIMENTAL METHODSELECTRONICSDATA TABLESEquipment at each Work StationInstrument Rack:In Wood Tool-Box on BenchPHYSICS 3330 FALL 2002 PHYSICS 3330 - ELECTRONICS FOR THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES INTRODUCTION Modern physical measurements, communication, and computation rely upon electronic hardware and instrumentation. Experimental problems in the major sub-fields of physics such as condensed matter, elementary particles, atomic nuclei, and optics almost always involve the use of unique electronic instrumentation. Electronic measurements are no less common in the other physical sciences, and they are essential in many modern interdisciplinary areas such as satellite-based environmental monitoring, the experimental study of chaos, or the search for extraterrestrial life. Electronics for the Physical Sciences provides an introduction to electronic design and, more importantly, provides hands on experimental experience. Thus, students are asked to build physical systems from scratch and show that they work. Electronics is employed because it is an arena in which to develop a critical understanding of how physical phenomena may be isolated and studied amidst the complexity of superposed effects that comprise the real world. Only after such dissection does nature become amenable to the kind of understanding that is expressed in physical laws and theories. Students are strongly encouraged to exercise initiative in the laboratory; all of the experiments are intended to be open-ended. ORGANIZATION So far as possible the laboratory is organized in the style of a research lab. There are eight student work stations each consisting of a set of modern electronic measuring instruments. Students working in groups of one or two use the same work station throughout the semester but share it with other groups belonging to the other lab sections. Individual experiments, on the other hand, are built up on circuit boards that students keep for the entire semester. This ensures that anything you have built for your experiment is preserved for as long as you need to complete the work. A course calendar showing the lab and lecture plan for each week of the semester will be handed out at the first course meeting. During the course of the semester announcements will be posted on the course web page and, if needed, communicated by e-mail. In accordance with University policy, you are required to maintain and regularly check an e-mail account. You are also encouraged to use e-mail to communicate with the instructors! LAB SESSIONS Each section has one 3-hour instructional lab per week, supervised by your lab instructor. You must attend your scheduled lab. This is the time when you can have your plans for the experiment reviewed, you can locate all of the equipment and supplies you will need, and you are given last-minute advice on techniques not discussed in the lab manual. INTRODUCTION -0.1- FALL 2002PHYSICS 3330 FALL 2002 The lab is open for unsupervised work any time the building wing is open and no section is meeting. The building hours will be identical to those of the library on the 1st floor immediately below our lab – access will be via the eastern stairwell. These times are available for you to complete unfinished experiments or to explore your own ideas. You will be given the combination to the lab door lock at the first lecture. Please do not share it with anyone not enrolled in this class, or prop the door open after unlocking it. LECTURES There will be a series of lectures given in the first part of the semester on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 1:50 in Duane G-125. The material includes both theoretical background for the experiments and a discussion of practical problems you may encounter. The schedule and subject matter will be handed out at the first lecture. OFFICE HOURS The office hours are for help with pre-lab problems and for hands-on help in the lab. You may seek help from any of the instructors. Office hours for each instructor are: • Dan Dessau Duane F625 Mon 3:00-4:30 • Ed Kinney Duane F219 Mon 1:30-3:00 • John Price Duane F635 Wed 2:30-4:00 WEEKLY WORK SCHEDULE Before your lab section: • Write report on the previous week's experiment. • Read the write-up for the next experiment in the lab manual. • Work through the theory presented in the textbook and the manual. • Do the pre-lab problems. During scheduled lab: • Turn in the report on last week's experiment to your instructor. • Turn in the pre-lab problems. • Start the experiment and go as far as you can. INTRODUCTION -0.2- FALL 2002PHYSICS 3330 FALL 2002 During open lab periods: • Complete the experiment. • Analyze some data in the lab. It often happens you need something you forgot to measure. PRE-LAB PROBLEMS The write-up for each experiment includes problems to help you design your experiment and learn the theory. The problems are due in the lab before you begin work on the experiment. It is essential that you do the pre-lab problems and read the write-up before your lab section. Otherwise you will not be able to make good use of your time in the lab, which is your main opportunity to get help from your instructor. We recommend that you solve the pre-lab problems in your lab notebook and then hand in a photocopy. This way you will have your calculations available while you work on the experiment. You will work with a partner in the lab, but you should do the pre-lab problems independently. Solutions to the pre-lab problems will be posted after all lab sections have met. LAB REPORTS Your reports should give a brief and clear account of what you observed in the lab, and what conclusions you can draw from your measurements. The report should be of a quality and style comparable to what you might imagine sending to a supervisor or project coworkers if you were working in a lab in a local high-tech company. A typical report will be three to six pages long. It will contain an introduction which describes the experiment in a few sentences, one or more figures depicting the circuit or other