Bruce McDowell
Spring 2007
4-23-07
OEES 205
Semiconductors
Bruce McDowell
Spring 2007
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Homework & Class Exercises
b = beginning of class
period, e = end of class period
| Assignment No. | Assignment Name |
Max. Pts. |
Date Assigned |
Date Due |
Reading-- starting page |
Reading--sections | Problems |
| (GA11-1) | Homework 1 | 15 | 1-18 | 1-23 b | 722 | 22-1 through 22-2. Special attention: section 22-2 |
p. 737 Review Questions #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| (GA18-10) | Homework 2 | 10 | 1-18 | 1-25 b | 740 | 23-1 through 23-3. Special attention: forward biasing, reverse biasing, voltage-only model, forward voltage drop |
p. 780 #1, 2 |
| (GA23-14) | Homework 3 | 10 | 1-23 | 1-29 b | 765 | 23-6 through Summary. Special attention: Sec. 23-6--Zener diode voltage regulator circuit. |
p. 780 #3, 4, 6 |
| Homework 4 | 10 | 1-29 | 2-5 b | p. 803 | Learn how to draw a bridge rectifier circuit with four diodes. Nothing to turn in. For a class exercise, I'll have you draw a bridge rectifier with your book closed. |
Lab
Work & Class Exercises
MS = MultiSim, RC = Real components, PP = pencil
and paper, D =
demonstration, b = beginning of class period, e = end of class period
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Assignment Name | Max. Pts. |
Date Assigned |
Date Due |
Description | |
| GA18-11 | Diode and Resistor | 10 | 1-18 | 1-22 e | MS | Simulate the circuits at the bottom of p. 747 |
| GA18-15 | Clipper | 10 | 1-18 | 1-22e | MS | Simulate the circuits on pp. 756 & 757 |
| GA22-16 | Demo | 5 | 1-22 | 1-22 | D | Scope & clipper circuits |
| GA23-12 | Clipper, real components | 10 | 1-23 | 1-24 e | RC | Build the circuit on p. 756 |
| GA23-13 | Clamping circuit | 10 | 1-23 | 1-24 e | MS | Simulate the circuit on p. 763 |
| GA29-16 | Power supply filters | 15 | 1-29 | 1-31 e | MS | Handout. (Simulate the circuits on p. 808, using a half-wave rectifier). |
| GB14-15 | Darlington configuration | 10 | 2-14 | RC | Connect two MPSA20 transistors in the Darlington configuration so that the current flowing through your body will be amplified enough to turn on an LED. | |
| GC7-13 | DTL gates | 15 | 3-7 | 3-12 e | MS | Click here for directions |
| GD23-12 | Analog sampling | 20 | 4-23 | 4-30 e | MS & RC | First, click here to get a Multisim version of the file. Then, play with the circuit to see how it works. Finally, build the circuit with real components. |
Extra Credit
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Reference
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My
links to Web sites with
information about electronics and the electrical trades: mounttaylor.spaces.live.com
(Additions are frequently made to these links.) |