Electronics
Applied Science Syllabus
"We were walking across Hyde Park having a chat and we
got onto the discussion that the quality of people coming for interviews was
falling in terms of
their knowledge about everyday things I take for granted, like knowing what is a
capacitor or resistor; which end of a soldering iron is hot. He said
they're
seeing a similar problem in terms of coding and programming, in that they've
never debugged a program." - Pete Lomas, designer of the Raspberry Pi,
Linux Format, Mar 2014, p43
Textbooks:
Basic Electronics, McWhorter & Evans, 2000
How Computers Work (8th Ed), Ron White, 2005
What's a Microcontroller, Parallax, 2004
www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/History.htm
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Week |
Chapter |
Title |
T&Q |
Lab |
Science |
History |
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1 |
1 |
Learning
About Elec |
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1a |
static |
Coulomb |
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2 |
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Learning
About Elec |
1a |
1b |
atomic |
Ohm |
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3 |
2 |
DC |
1b |
2a |
current |
Ampere |
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4 |
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DC |
2a |
2b |
periodic
table |
Volta |
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5 |
3 |
AC |
2b |
3a |
waves |
Kirchoff |
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6 |
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AC |
3a |
3b |
units |
Hertz |
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7 |
Supp |
Batteries |
3b |
Batt |
electrochem |
Morse |
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8 |
Supp |
Motors |
E1 |
Motors |
sig
figures |
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1 |
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field
trip |
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2 |
4 |
Diodes |
Motors |
4a |
sound |
Watt |
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3 |
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Diodes |
4a |
4b |
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4 |
4 |
Transistors |
4b |
4c |
light |
Edison |
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5 |
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Transistors |
4c |
4d |
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6 |
5 |
Amplifiers |
4d |
5a |
reflection |
Faraday |
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7 |
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Amplifiers |
5a |
5b |
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Gauss |
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8 |
5 |
Oscillators |
5b |
5c |
refraction |
Maxwell |
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9 |
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Oscillators |
MT |
5d |
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Tesla |
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1 |
6 |
Transmitters |
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6a |
bonding |
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2 |
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Transmitters |
6a |
6b |
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Fleming |
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3 |
6 |
Receivers |
6b |
6c |
forces |
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4 |
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Receivers |
6c |
6d |
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de
Forest |
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5 |
7 |
Digital
Circuits |
6d |
7a |
kinetics |
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6 |
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Digital
Circuits |
7a |
7b |
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Oersted |
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7 |
8 |
Digital
Logic |
7b |
8a |
moles |
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8 |
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Digital
Logic |
E3 |
8b |
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Marconi |
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1 |
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field
trip |
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2 |
9 |
Electronic
Memories |
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9 |
oxidation |
Bardeen |
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3 |
Supp |
Micro
Processors |
9 |
microproc |
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4 |
10 |
Computers |
microproc |
10a |
reduction |
Babbage |
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5 |
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Computers |
10a |
10b |
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6 |
10 |
Computers |
10b |
10c |
materials |
computers |
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7 |
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Computers |
10c |
10d |
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8 |
11 |
Photoelectric
Devices |
10d |
11 |
nuclear |
languages |
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9 |
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Guest |
FINAL |
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