1250

Schedule

N. Cotter

U12

Wk

#

Date

Lecture Topic

Reading

Lecture/Notes

CTools

1

1

M

14

May

Introduction, Systems in radio-controlled car.

Ch. 1, 2.1-3

Lect 1

2

W

16

Basic electrical units & symbols, Kirchhoff's laws.

2.5-7, 17

Lect 2-4

Sources, Passive Sign, K's Laws

3

H

17

Resistance, Ohm's law, Power, Resistors in parallel & series.

2.11-12, 3.5

Ohms Law

4

F

18

Nodes, Grounds, Branches, Meters, Voltage and current dividers.

2.10, 2.13-16

V I Dividers

2

5

M

21

I vs V curves of, sources, resistors, bulbs, and diodes. Thevenin. Max pwr xfer

3.2, 2.19

Lect 5 and 6

Thevenin Equiv, Max Power Xfer

6

W

23

Thevenin examples

7

H

24

Intro to AC and time-varying v(t) & i(t). Concept of signal. Sinusoids. Fourier.

2.20, 3.8

Lect 7

Fourier Series

8

F

25

Power transmission, Transformer.

Lect 8

Lab 1

Lab 2

Introduction to lab, procedures, basic equipment. Measure I-V curves of devices.

Measurements of I and V for RC car battery. Create model of the car's battery.

3

M

28

MEMORIAL DAY

9

W

30

PWM duty cycle and power, AM, FM

2.23, C.8, C.9

A/D Converters

10

H

31

A/D conversion, Capacitors

2.34

Lect 9

RLC Circuits

F

1

Jun

Exam 1

Lab 2

Lab 3

cont.

Learn about oscilloscope. Motor drive control RC car. PWM circ. with func gen.

4

11

M

4

RC Circuits. First-order transients.

Ch 6

12

W

6

Op amps

Ch 7

Notes: Op Amps

Op-Amps

13

H

7

Op amps and the PWM circuit

14

F

8

Op amps

Lab 4a

Lab 4b

Make PWM circuit with op-amps.

Model PWM circuit in PSpice

5

15

M

11

Introduction to block diagrams, feedback

13.1-4

Notes: Systems

16

W

13

Feedback control, esp. as it relates to steering position control of the car.

17

H

14

Stability and Performance of Control Systems.

Ch 12

F

15

Exam 2

Lab 4b

Lab 5

cont.

Steering position control. Pots as sensors. Measure system response of servo.

6

18

M

18

Introduction to digital circuits, esp. related to encoding and decoding RC signals

Ch 12

Notes: Digital

19

W

20

Boolean algebra, Digital gates

Ch 12

20

H

21

Flip-flops

21

F

22

State machines

Lab 6

Lab 7

Construct digital adder circuit

Construct counter circuit

7

22

M

25

Steady-state sinusoids, Phasors, & Complex numbers.

2.34

Notes: Phasors Intro

Complex #'s

23

W

27

Phasors, Impedance, and AC circuits

2.27

Phasors

24

H

28

AC circuit examples

2.29-30

Notes: Phasors Ex

Impedance

25

F

29

Filters and frequency-response plots

2.33

Lab 7

cont.

Build and test audio circuit.

8

M

2

Exam 3

W

4

4TH of JULY

26

H

5

M1: Overview of Sounds and Speech; Matlab® Intro; Starting and quitting; Matlab® Primer book, Desktop; Matlab® as powerful graphics calculator

Lect_M1

27

F

6

M2: Variables, Arrays, Matrices: entering, addition, transpose, inverses, products, element-by-element operations, Concatenation, Complex Numbers

Lect_M2

Lab M1

Experiment with sound files using simple script functions (provided).

9

28

M

9

M3: Script files, Array indexing, Colon operator, Indexing using arrays, Sum function, Functions operating on columns, Generating matrices

Lect_M3, Advanced Indexing

29

W

11

M4: Operators, Identity matrix (eye), min, max, size, character strings, Advanced indexing

Lect_M4

30

H

12

M5: Advanced indexing continued, Writing script files, Clearing functions

Lect_M5, my_script.m

31

F

13

M6: 3-D plots using meshgrid and surfl, Array processing, Fourier theory, Creating 3-D surfaces

Lect_M6, bumps.m

Lab M2

Lab M3

Alter sound waveform (apply functions [= distort], add noise, delete parts, etc.).

Process and plot sound waveforms: spectrogram, sound effects, filtering, plots.

10

32

M

16

M7: Solving simultaneous equations, Fitting lines or other functions to data, Comparison operators: ==, >=, ~=, >, <, Any and All functions

Lect_M7

33

W

18

M8: 3-D plot example with array processing,And and Or operators, Any and All operators, If else control flow

Lect_M8

H

19

Exam 4

34

F

20

M9: Digital Signal Processing, Fast Fourier Transform, Spectrum

Lect_M9, chop_spec.m, real_fft.m

Lab M3

Lab M4

Process and plot sound waveforms: spectrogram, sound effects, filtering, plots.

Create a sound effect: write functions, plot waveforms, create sound effect.

11

35

M

23

M10: Control flow: switch, for loops

Lect_M10, parallel.m, standard_R.m, vibrato.m, butter_filter.m

36

W

25

M11: Writing Matlab® functions

Lect_M11, dig_filter.m

37

H

26

M12: Writing Matlab® functions

Lect_M12

38

F

27

M13: Examples of writing functions, Digital filter function

Lect_M13

Lab M4

Create a sound effect: write functions, plot waveforms, create your sound effect.

12

39

M

30

M14: Matlab® input/output to and from files, dlmread, wavread, imread

Lect_M14

40

W

1

Aug

Review for final

F

3

Final Exam 10:00-12:00 a.m. (regular classroom)