Analog Electronics — Daily Schedule Term 5

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See also Daily Schedule-Term 4

Week 8

• Tuesday, March 17 — Read and we will discuss How Semiconductors Work — Also read the early history of Silicon Valley and The Traitorous Eight
• Friday, March 20 — Grisha presented battery operation — We discussed the operation and oscillation of the two-transistor circuit on p. 57

Week 9

• Tuesday, March 24 — Skip to p. 59 and as the homework before class, build the two circuits on that page — We carefully studied the first three pages of a book section on Bipolar Junction Transistors — Our goal was to understand (a) the depletion region (reverse bias) at the base(p)-collector(n) junction, (b) the forward bias at the emitter(n)-base(p) junction, (c) and most importantly, the explanation of the multiplier effect wherein only a small fraction of the electrons going into the emitter join with holes in the base, or come out the base lead (most go across and are swept into the collector) — Then we built the one-transistor amplifier on p. 61

• Homework for Friday, March 27 — Build your second one-transistor amplifier on p. 62

• Plans for class on Friday, March 27 — We will try to understand how the multiplier effect in our one-transistor circuits work — We will understand the capacitor/resistor combinations that alter tone — We will build the two-transistor amplifier on p. 63