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Electronics Laboratory
Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................iii
Lab 1: Introduction to Equipment and DC Circuits .....................................................................1
1.
Ohm's Law and its Disobedience ...................................................................... 1
2.
Voltage Divider and Thévenin's Equivalent Circuit ........................................... 1
3.
Oscilloscope and Function Generator............................................................... 2
Lab 2: RC and LR Circuits ..........................................................................................................5
1.
Low-pass Filter .................................................................................................. 5
2.
High-pass Filter ................................................................................................. 7
3.
RC Differentiator/Integrator ............................................................................... 7
4.
Cascaded Filters (optional) ............................................................................... 7
5.
LR Filters (optional) ...........................................................................................7
Lab 3: LRC Resonant Circuits.....................................................................................................9
1.
Series LRC Circuit............................................................................................. 9
2.
Parallel LC Circuit ............................................................................................. 10
3.
Fourier Analysis ................................................................................................10
Lab 4: Diode Circuits ...................................................................................................................11
1.
Diode Characteristic and Half-wave Rectifier.................................................... 11
2.
Full-wave Rectifier Bridge ................................................................................. 11
3.
Voltage Doubler ................................................................................................12
4.
Diode Clipper ....................................................................................................12
5.
Diode Clamp .....................................................................................................13
6.
Signal Rectifier (optional) ..................................................................................13
7.
Zener Diode (optional).......................................................................................13
Lab 5: Transistor Fundamentals ................................................................................................. 15
1.
Using Transistor Curve Tracers to Measure Operating Characteristics............ 15
2.
Transistor Biasing ............................................................................................. 17
Lab 6: Transistor Amplifiers ........................................................................................................ 19
1.
The Common-emitter Amplifier .........................................................................19
2.
The Emitter-follower Amplifier ........................................................................... 19
3.
The Push-pull Output Stage.............................................................................. 20
4.
The Darlington Pair ...........................................................................................20
Lab 7: Field Effect Transistors ....................................................................................................23
1.
Junction FET Characteristic Curves.................................................................. 23
2.
FET Current Source .......................................................................................... 24
3.
Source Follower ................................................................................................24
4.
Using the JFET as a Variable Resistor ............................................................. 25
The World's Simplest AM Radio Transmitter .................................................... 25
5.
The Common Source JFET Amplifier................................................................26
Lab 8: Differential and Operational Amplifiers............................................................................. 29
1.
The Differential Amplifier ...................................................................................29
2.
The Operational Amplifier..................................................................................30
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