This course will cover elements of electronics and digital signal processing with a strong emphasis on practical circuit design and data acquisition techniques. Topics will be selected from: Resonant matching networks, poles and zeros, Bode plots, the Laplace transform in network theory, feedback and oscillation, active filters, Nyquist and the elements of DSP, digital filters, the DFT and signal processing using the DFT, modulation formats.
The course includes a practice electronics design project that will be carried out in the physics advanced lab 1 day per week during class time.
The course assumes a knowledge of the material covered in PHYSICS 240 or 244, and a mathematics background which includes differential equations, complex numbers, and a little linear algebra (matrices). If you don’t have this background, extra reading will be necessary.