Contents

• Breadboard techniques and simple circuits.
  • Introduction to the workbench.
  • Errors introduced by the instruments
  • Low-pass filter
  • Observing phase shift with Lissajous patterns
  • Shielding and induced signals
  
  
• Operational Amplifiers: Basic Concepts
  • Null voltage measurement
  • Voltage follower
  • Follower with gain
  
  
• Building circuits with op-amps
  • Current-to-voltage converter
  • Inverting amplifier
  • Summing amplifier
  • Op-amp characteristics
  
  
• Advanced op-amp designs
  • Op-amp integrator
  • Op-amp differentiator
  • Difference amplifier
  • Instrumentation amplifier
  • Logarithmic amplifier
  • Analog multiplier
  
  
• Active filters and tuned amplifiers
  • Active filter
  • Notch filter
  • Lock-in amplifier
  
  
• An introduction to using microcomputers in a physics laboratory
• Building and using a digital thermometer
• Resistor colour code