8462 (v.4) Scientific Data Acquisition 201

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	305415 (v.3) Physics 102 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Review AC/DC analysis. DC power supplies - transformers. Rectification, filters, regulation. FET and FET amplifiers. Bipolar transistors. Op amps and applications. Comparators. Transducers and systems - pulse shaping. Integration, differentiation, clipping, squaring, trigger and vibrator circuits. Transducers - photocells, photo-voltaic, photodiodes, PIN, avalanche, CCDs and circuitry. Temperature measurement, thermo couples, temperature-dependent resistors - amplifier requirements. Strain gauges - uses,construction, bridges, gauge factors, load cells. Piezo-electric, pyro-electric transducers and ultrasonic applications. Accelerometers, frequency response and amplifier requirements. Differential transformers, capacitor transducers, salinity and humidity.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	010301 Physics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External