I was an electronics lab teaching assistant for the Spring 2006 semester.

Spring 2006.

We covered basic circuit components and theory for non-engineers – everything from how to use lab equipment to building oscillator circuits.

Topics covered:

• Electrical safety
• How to use a multimeter
• Natural resistance in everyday objects and people
• Measuring resistance and how to use a laboratory power supply
• How to use a breadboard
• Calculating battery-life
• Circuit analysis / how to read and draw a schematic
• How to use an oscilloscope
• Basic components: resistors, capacitors, and inductors
• How to solder (safely and correctly)
• Potentiometers
• Semi-conductors and integrated circuits
• Operational amplifiers and the voltage divider circuit
• Piezo elements / contact microphones
• Audio-specific operational amplifiers and speakers
• Wiring audio jacks and connectors
• Square-wave oscillator circuits using op amps
• Chaotic oscillator circuits: Chua and Vilnius
• Repurposing obsolete hardware / reclaiming components
• Sensors: photocells, photodiodes, thermistors, hall-effect sensors, acceleramators, ir motion-sensor, and ultrasonic sensors

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Here is the capacitor lab I wrote: Experiment 3.pdf

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