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Class Number (Formerly CRN)

40717

Instructor(s)

Staff

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Course Description:

Introduces practical electronics, emphasizing circuits used to measure and record environmental data. Covers key environmental parameters, sensors, A/D conversion, microcontroller programming, data transmission & display, selection and use of scientific instruments for environmental data collection. Each student designs and builds an instrument to measure and record underwater light, temperature, and conductivity in marine or freshwater habitat. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

[(Prerequisites: MATH 150) AND (PHYS 121 OR PHYS 150 OR PHYS 220) AND (Corequisites: PHYS 330L)]

Footnotes:

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Start & End Dates:

Start: August 24, 2009
End: December 20, 2009

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

Paul Scherz, Practical electronics for inventors (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007)
ISBN: 9780071452816
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Required Reading