Physics Intermediate Lab 2019

Intermediate Physics Laboratory

PHYS 2129

Spring 2019

 

Lecture:           Tuesday 1.00 – 1.50 pm

Place: Physics Room 202

 

Laboratory:     Tuesday 2.00 – 4.50 pm

Thursday 1.00 – 3.50 pm

Place: Physics Room 219

 

Instructor:       Yew San Hor

Email: yhor@mst.edu

Office: 111 SJH

Office Hours: Tue, Thu 11.00 am – 12.00 pm

 

Laboratory Manual: Principals of Electronic Instrumentation (copy).

 

References: Basic Electronics: An Introduction to Electronics for Science Students by Curtis A. Meyer,

An Introduction to Modern Electronics by William L. Faissler,

Principles of Electronic Instrumentation by A. James Diefenderfer and Brian E. Holton.

 

Laboratory Schedule:

 

Date

Experiment

Date

Project

Jan 22

1

Mar 19

16

24

2

21

17/18

29

3

Apr 2

1

31

4

4

Feb 5

5

9

2

7

6

11

12

7

16

3

14

8

18

19

9

23

4

21

10

25

26

11

30

5

28

12

May 2

Mar 5

13

7

6

7

15

9

12

Midterm Test

To be determined

Final Test

14

Spring Recess

 

 

 

 

Experiment Report:   Every student must turn in his/her report for grading. Each report should be turned in with a cover page (must be printed page) which contains name, name of lab partner, title of experiment and date. The cover page should have a short description of the experiment and your conclusions.

                                 For each experiment, simulate one circuit with Multisim and turn in a print-out with your experiment report.           

                                 Experiment reports must be turned in for grading by Friday and Monday after they are scheduled. This means, Tuesday experiment report is due on Friday and Thursday report is due on Monday. Each experiment will be graded at 100 point scale.

Project Report:    The following are the projects to be completed in the last part of this semester. Each completed project will be graded at 200 point scale.

  1. Lab-View and interface to your simple circuit.

-    Start by doing Lab-View Tutorial. (April 2, 4)

  1. 2.   Construction of a two-digit frequency counter. (April 9, 11)
    1. Low level signal measurements with a thermocouple. Noise reduction and instrumentation amplifier. (April 16, 18)
    2. Use of the data acquisition module for your computer to measure temperature or light level in Room 219. (April 23, 25)
    3. Photodarlington Optical Interrupter (April 30, May 2)
      1. Temperature Controller. (May 7, 9).

These laboratory projects will be different from the follow-the-instruction-in-the-manual type that we do in the first half of the semester. You will get a general description of what your goal is and some suggestions about how to accomplish that goal. Each group of laboratory partners will work out how to do the lab. You can talk with other lab groups but each student is responsible for knowing the why and how of everything.

For this part of the course, each student will keep your own laboratory notebook. For each project, each group submits one written laboratory report (prepared with a word processor; diagrams etc. or can be hand drawn if necessary). I suggest the following be included: Name of project, your name, name of lab partner, date, objectives, procedures, circuit diagrams, data, error analysis, conclusions or results, discussion of difficulties. Each week project report will be collected on the following Tuesdays.

*Late reports will not be accepted.

 

Grading Scale:            >89.5 % = A

>79.5 % = B

>69.5 % = C

>59.5 % = D

 

Grade weight:            Laboratory reports (experiment and project): 50 %

                                 Midterm test: 20 %

                                 Final test: 30 %

 

*Midterm and final tests will be based on the materials covered in lectures, laboratory experiments and projects. 

 

 

Intermediate Physics Laboratory

Physics 2129

Spring 2019

 

Lab Experiments:

 

1. Ohm’s Law

2. Kirchoff’s Law

3. DC Circuits

4. AC Test Instruments

5. Transient RC Circuits

6. AC Circuits

7. LCR Circuits

8. Diodes I: Rectification and Filtering

9. Diodes II: Zeners

10. DC Power Supplies

11. Transistors

12. Op-Amps I

13. Op-Amps II

14. Circuit Simulation (Multisim is used for each lab experiment)

15. Oscillators

16. Digital Circuits

17. Digital and Analog I/O (I)

18. Digital and Analog I/O (II)

 

Projects:

 

1. LabView Interface

2. Digital Counting Circuits

3. Measurement by Using Sensor

4. Data Collecting

5. Counter and detector

6. Controlling Circuits