Re: get rich thru doing science

That kind of sounds like my third-year electrical course. We played with
op-amps and transistors, plus a few logic gates, but nothing more
substantial. I was quite disappointed by it.

What was covered in this particular electrical course?

Op-amps, basic diode and transistor operation, and some gates.

From what I remember, the electronics course I had in sophomore year
covered:

- Thevenin + Norton equivalent circuits
- op-amps and basic circuits (ie. amplifier, inverter, integrator,
differentiator, etc ...)
- diodes
- power supply circuits (ie. rectifier circuits with diodes)
- transistors (ie. field effect, bipolar junction, etc ...) and
circuit approximations, biasing
- frequency response of circuits, bode plots
- amplifier circuits
- feedback + stability
- digital gates

This was a semester length course offered by the physics department.

The EE department had a sequence of courses stretching three
semesters, which covered the same ground (and a bit more).

The first EE course covered Thevenin + Norton equivalent circuits,
analysis of AC circuits (ie. phasors, impedance, frequency behavior,
etc ...), response of RC and LC circuits, RLC circuits and resonance.
(In physics, we covered these same topics in the electricity and
magnetism part of freshman physics. I suppose the EE department
decided to do it again in sophomore year, with the assumption that the
students could solve differential equations.)

The second EE course covered diodes, op-amps, transistors (field
effect, bipolar junction), and basic circuits with these components.
The transistor structure of basic digital logic gates was also
covered.

The third EE course went into more circuits (ie. amplifiers, filters,
oscillators, etc ...) with more details, like biasing, feedback,
stability of circuits, etc ...

I heard that the three EE courses also placed quite a bit of emphasis
on the design aspects. The single term physics course didn't really
emphasize design as much.

I remember in the engineering physics major, we had the option of
either taking the three semester length sequence of circuits +
electronics courses by the EE department, or the single semester
electronics course by the physics department. I ended up taking
single semester course offered by the physics department, in the
second semester of my sophomore year. I studied the subject
previously when I was trying to design a stereo amplifier and a 24
channel mixing board, and was already familiar with it. I didn't
really want to spend three semesters going over stuff I already knew.

.

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