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From SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL - PHYS 3344 - 

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Date..... 

MARCH 19, 1976 

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONICS 

MOTION: ? 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval 

to the Board of Governors, as set forth in 

S.76-51, the new course proposal for PHYS 334-4 

- Introduction to Electronics." 

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SENATE COMMITTEEONUNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

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COURSE QPOSAL..   

Date....MARCH1k,....1976 

PHYSICS 334-4, INTRO. TO ELECTRONICS 

Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 

at its meeting of Tuesday, March 9, 1976, gives rise to the following 

MOTION that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board 

of Governors Physics 334-4, Introduction to Electronics. 

Rationale 

The Committee discussed the rationale provided by the 

Physics Department and agreed that it is desirable to regularize recent 

practice by adding a lecture component to the course and by adjusting 

the credit correspondingly. S.C.U.S. has approved the first offering 

of this course in the Fall semester 1976. 

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D. R. Birch. 

DRB:ged 

Aronoff, Dean 

Faculty of Science 

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February 20, 1976 

H. Evans, Secretary 

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Undergraduate Studies 

PHYS 334-4: INTRODUCTION TO 

ELECTRONICS 

At its meeting of February 19, 1976 the Faculty of Science passed the 

following motion, unopposed: 

"That the Faculty approve 

new

course proposal PHYS 334-4, 

Introduction to Electronics, and forward to SCIJS for con- 

sideration." 

The supporting documentation for thisproposal is attached. A waiver 

of the time lag requirement is r&uested in order that this course 

may he offered in the Summer Semester 711-2. 

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Abreviati.n Code. 

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Course ucber: 

334-4 

Credit Hours: 

4_

Vector: 

1-0-4 

Title of Course: 

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONICS 

calendar Description of Courts; 

Lectures and experiments in fundamental 

electronics, A.C. circuits, cçmplex impedance analysis, filters and resonance 

circuits. Physics of active devices, equivalent circuits. Diodes. Theory and 

construction of amplifiers using triodes and transistors. Negative feedback, 

positive feedback and oscillators and multivibrators. Operational amplifiers, 

nature of Course 

integrated circuits, analog circuits. 

Laboratory 

with 

ccowanying 

lectures. 

Prerequisites (or spec2m instructiOni). 

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Hy s205-2 

and at least 3 semester hours of credit in 200 division laboratories. 

Students with credit irPHYS 331-3 may not take this course for further credit. 

what 

course (courses), if 

is being dropped from 

the

calendar 3.i 

this course i 

approved: 

P 331-3 

2.

Schedulinq 

How frequently will the course be offered? 

Twice a year. 

course will 

offered? 

FaI1 semester 76-3 

Which 

of your present 

faculty 

make 

the

possible? 

A.S. Arrott, B.P. Clayman, J.F. Cochran, K. Colbow, E.D. Crozier, 

A.E. Curzon, R.F. Frindt, S. Gygax, D.J. Huntley, J.C. Irwin, L.H. Palmer, 

3.

Objectives of the Course ? 

K.E. Rieckhoff. 

P334- will provide a theoretical and experimental introduction to the 

fundamentals of electronics. It will provide a basic background 

essential to jjccessfu1 instrumentation in the physical sciences. 

4. Budetaiy and 

Space Requireentj (for 

Information only) 

Whet 

additional resources will be required in the 

following 

areas: 

!acuity 

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Nil

Nil

Audio Visual Nil 

Space ? 

Nil

Equipment 

Nil

SCS 73-34b: When corpletLng this forts, for instructions see 

Mtoradum SCLS 73-34a. 

Attach course outline). 

RATIONALE 

Physics 334-4 is designed to replace a course that is presently 

offered under the designation Physics 331-3 - Intermediate 

Laboratory I. Phys 334-4 will include the laboratory experiments 

that are presently performed in Physics 331-3 and in addition one 

lecture per week will be given. It has been found necessary to 

incorporate lectures into the course to provide an introduction 

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to the theory and principles on 

the laboratory experiments 

are based. For the last two years these lectures (one per week) 

have been given voluntarily by faculty and attended by students 

without any accompanying credit. Physics 334-4 is being introduced 

to rectify this situation by giving an amount of credit compatible 

with the work load required. 

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8, Amplifiers Ills 

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS 

1. Introduction to multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscope. 

2

0 Complex Impedance I: high and low pass filters. 

.3. Complex Impedance XIs resonance circuits. 

4. Diodes. 

S. I.V. characteristics of active devices (triode, PET, NPN 

transistor). 

6. Amplifiers Is triode and FET amplifiers 

Common cathode (source), Cathode (source) Follower. 

7. Amplifiers 11* 

NPN amplifiers 

Common emitter,, emitter follower, common base 

Darlington pair. 

frequency response of triode and junction 

transistor amplifier, RC coupled 2-stage 

transistor amplifier with negative feedback. 

9.

Positive feedback & Oscillators 

RC phase shift oscillator, Colpitte oscillator, 

unijunction relaxation oscillator. 

10.

Negative feedback & operational amplifiers 

Simple analogue computation, (addition, sub- 

tracting, multiplication, division, squaring, 

square "rooting" integration, differentiation). 

11. Multivibratora, 

12, Analogue Circuits 

analogue solutions to linear algebraic equations, 

elementary linear and non-linear differential 

equations. 

LECTURE TOPICS 

1.

A.C. circuit theory, complex impedance, RC filters. 

2.

Series and 

Parallel 

resonance circuits. 

3.

Introductory band theoryt electron in a box, met&ls, intrinsic 

semiconductors, extrinsic semi- 

conductors, contact potential, p-n 

rectifier equation. 

4

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Equivalent 

circuital 

Diode equivalent circuit, Thevenin's and 

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Norton's theorms, Triode equivalent circuit 

and sample calculations of voltage gain, 

input, and output impedance. 

5.• Physics of the PET and equivalent circuits. 

6.

Physics of the junction transistor. The 

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equivalent circuits 

for junction transistor and sample calculations for common emitter, 

emitter follower and common base 

Brief dis- 

cussion of hybrid equivalent circuits. 

7.

Effect of negative feedback on amplifier performance, 

S. Positive feedback and oscillators. Detailed 

discussion 

of

phase shift oscillator. 

9. Negative feedback 

operational amplifier. 

10.' Nultivibrators. 

(See Distribution Below) 

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Science 

Faculty of 

PHYS 334-4 COURSE OVERLAP 

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November 12, 1975 

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In accordance with SCUS 75-27 the attached documentation on course 

proposal PHYS 334-4 "Introduction to Electronics" is forwarded to 

faculty curriculum committees for review in terms of course overlap. 

It should be noted that this represents the addition of a lecture 

to a course which has been in existence for ten years. 

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End. 

Distribution: J. Weinkam, Interdisciplinary Studies 

L. Boland, Faculty of Arts 

S. O'Connell, Faculty of Education 

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