Analog Electronics

Instructor:	Raymond Frey, Wil 405, 346-5873, rayfrey@cosmic.uoregon.edu
Text:	The Art of Electronics, 2nd Ed., Horowitz and Hill; Instructor's lecture notes

Topics :

We will cover the following topics:

passive analog circuits, resistors, capacitors, and inductors, and their analysis in time

and in frequency using the method of complex impedance

diodes and transistors; basic transistor circuits; FETs
operational amplifiers ("op amps"); negative and positive feedback
applications of the above, including amplifiers, filters, oscillators, radio and phase-locked loop

This material corresponds to most of Chapters 1, 2, and 4 of the text, with some material from Chapters 3, 5, 9, and 13. The text does not provide a linear exposition of the subject matter, starting from basics and coherently working up, as is typically found in physics texts. (In fact, I know of no such text for electronics.) However, the text is very comprehensive and makes an excellent reference. But it does require some work to keep the main concepts in focus. To facilitate this, I will provide lecture notes which will be handed out in class and will be available

Notes : from this web page.

TOPICS/TEXT

Introduction; Voltage dividers; Thevenin theorem text 1.0-1.20; Lecture Notes 1 (ps) or (pdf)

linear devices; AC circuits & calculations; complex impedance; text 1.21-1.34, App A; Lecture Notes 2 (ps) or (pdf) ; Lecture Notes 3 (ps) or (pdf)

Frequency domain calculations (contd.); diodes; transistors; text 2.0-2.14;
Lecture Notes 4 (ps) or (pdf)

transistor circuits; text 2.15-2.25; Lecture Notes 5 (ps) or (pdf) ; Lecture Notes 6 (ps) or (pdf)

transistor circuits; FETs text 3.0-3.03 (browse); Lecture Notes 7 (ps) or (pdf)

Differential amplifiers, Op-amps; text Ch 4 thru 4.12 ; Lecture Notes 10 (ps) or (pdf)

Midterm Exam Thursday Nov 4 (Do the practice exam!)

Op-amp circuits; feedback ; Lecture Notes 9 (ps) or (pdf)

pos. feedback and oscillators; Lecture Notes 10 (ps) or (pdf)

"radio": modulation and detection, AM, phase, and FM; phase-locked loops ; Lecture Notes 11 (ps) or (pdf)

Projects due this week; writeups due Friday Dec 10 5PM