Introduction and in-class material

• ⚛ Introduction to Physics 398DLP
• ⚛ Unit 1
• ⚛ Unit 2
• ⚛ Unit 3
• ⚛ Celia Elliott's "How to Present a Physics Talk"
• ⚛ Celia Elliott's "How to write a technical report"

Student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues

• Week 2:
  ⚛ introduction to the Arduino Mega 2560 (group 2);
  ⚛ how the BME680 T/P/H/VOC sensor works (group 5);
  ⚛ how a successive approximation ADC works (group 3).
  
  
• Week 3:
  ⚛ how the ADXL326 accelerometer works (group 4);
  ⚛ how an electret microphone works (group 1);
  ⚛ how the MLX90614 IR sensor works (group 7).
  
  
• Week 4:
  ⚛ I2C communication protocol (group 6);
  ⚛ interrupts (group 5);
  ⚛ how the MCP4725 DAC works (group 2).
  
  
• Week 5:
  ⚛ Adafruit GPS breakout board (group 3);
  ⚛ Atmel 2560 microcontroller timer modules (group 4);
  ⚛ PWM (pulse width modulation) and the PAM8302 amplifier (group 1).
  
  
• Week 6:
  ⚛ L3GD20H Triple-Axis Gyro (group 4);
  ⚛ VL53L0X Time of Flight Distance Sensor (group 7);
  ⚛ high speed microSD data transfer issues. GG will discuss informally.
  
  
• Week 7:
  ⚛ Status reports, all groups.
  
  

Project reports

• ⚛ I will post these at the end of the term.