This course will serve as an introduction to working with circuits in a lab setting. We will learn about the relatively simple rules necessary for working with analog circuits and how those rules can be used to build objects of growing complexity. We will then move on to understanding how to build circuits that can measure properties of and interact with their surroundings. The topics covered in this course are widely applicable and will likely appeal to students interested in physics, computer science, robotics, electronic music, as well as those simply interested in electronic tinkering. While there will be some limited lecture time, the large majority of the time will be spent in the lab building circuits.

We will meet:
Mondays 1:40pm – 5:30pm in the Physics Lab (Dickinson 238)

Tentative Schedule (likely to change)

Date	Topic	Reading	Assignments
October 27	Basic Circuits	Electricity Ohm’s Law Circuits Resistors Breadboard Multimeter	Circuit Introduction and Ohm’s Law
November 3	LEDs and RC Circuits	LEDs 1.0 LEDs 2.0 RC Circuits	RC Circuits and LEDs
November 10	Filters and Diodes	Using an Oscilloscope High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters Diodes	Oscilloscope, Filters, and Diodes
November 17	Transistors + Environmental Sensors	Transistors: 1, 2, 3, 4 Transistor Calculations: 1, 2 Thermistor Info Photoresistor Info	Transistors and Sensors
November 24	Digital Sensors + Raspberry Pi	Raspberry Pi Quick Intro Raspberry Pi GPIO Using an ADC	Raspberry Pi Introduction
December 1	Final Projects
December 8	Final Projects