4 credits (3 hours of lecture; 3 hours of
lab)
Offered spring.
Phys 350 or consent of instructor required.
Not for GE.
Description and laboratory exercies involving modern scientific instrumentation equipment and techniques. Includes: transducers, transistors, operational amplifiers, active filters, oscillators, boolean algebra, logic gates, flip-flops, counters, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, computer interfacing and signal-to-noise enhancement techniques.