Dec 05, 2025  
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

PHYS 260L - Electronics for Physicists

1 cr.


(Formerly PHYS 250L) (Prerequisites: PHYS 140L , PHYS 141L )

In this laboratory course, students will learn to analyze and construct basic circuits needed for data acquisition and signal processing.  Topics covered are design and prototype simple analog and digital circuits that can be used for data acquisition, basic noise reduction techniques, including band pass filters and lock-in detection, amplifiers, oscillators, sensors, and optoelectronics.