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Syllabus

Course Catalog Description: Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement 3 credits. Lecture course with laboratory requirements. Topics include: DC and AC Electrical Circuits, Solid a.

Prequisites:Math 360. Phys 301 or equiv. g561.

Course Description: A practical course applying the theoretical description of fundamental particle interactions such as the photoelectric effect, compton scattering and pair production to describe multiple interactions of particles with matter using the montecarlo method. A software package known as GEANT from CERN will be used which is freely available under the UNIX environment. The course assumes that the student has very limited experience with the UNIX environment and no experience with GEANT. Homework problems involve modifying and compiling example programs written in C++. A final project is required in which the student chooses a process to compare the output of GEANT with experimental data. A report is written in a format which would be publishable in a scientific journal. Publishing the report is not required but left as an option for the student.

Week #	Lecture reading	Notes	Lab A	Lab B
1	Chapter 1 (DC Circuits)	TF_EIM_Chapt1	LabSkills_TF	Lab_1_TF_EIM
2	Chapter 2 (AC Circuits)	TF_EIM_Chapt2	None	Lab_3_TF_EIM
3	Chapter 3 (Pulses)	TF_EIM_Chapt3	Lab_4_TF_EIM	Lab_5_TF_EIM
4	Chapter 4 (Semiconductor Physics)	TF_EIM_Chapt4	Lab_6_TF_EIM	Lab #6 (cont)
5	Chapter 5 (Bipolar Transistors)	TF_EIM_Chapt5	Lab_8_TF_EIM	Lab_9_TF_EIM
6	Chapt 5 (cont)		None	Lab_10_TF_EIM
7	MidTerm		Lab_11_TF_EIM	Lab_13_TF_EIM
8	Chapt 6 (Field Effect Transistors FETs)	TF_EIM_Chapt6	Lab_14_TF_EIM	Lab_17_TF_EIM
9			Lab_23_TF_EIM	Lab_23_TF_EIM
10			Lab_25_TF_EIM	Lab_30_TF_EIM
11			Lab_27_TF_EIM	Lab 27
13			Makeup Labs	Makeup Labs
14			Makeup Labs
15			Makeup Labs
16			Finals