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Electronics and Modern Physics for

Computers
PHY 232
Lecture 1

Dr. Humphrey Ibifubara

 Lecture Overview

• D.C. Circuits; Kirchhoff’s Laws, sources of end and current, network analysis and
circuit theorems. A.C. Circuits. Inductance, capacitance, the transformer, sinusoidal
wave-forms runs and peak values, power, impedance and admittance series RLC
circuit, Q factor, resonance, Network analysis and circuit theorems, filters.
Electronics; Thermionic emission; vacuum, thermionic devices; valves and the CRT
semiconductors, the pn-junction, field effect transistors, bipolar transistors,
Characteristics and equivalent circuits, amplifiers, feedback, oscillators.
3. Exercises
 Definition of Computer
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 Exercises
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