Electronics and photonics
For Purchase
- The Transistor Amplifier Kit enables students to quickly construct and then easily investigate a transistor circuit. The circuit is simple to assemble with students able to observe the behaviour of the circuit and take measurements within five minutes. A pack of 10 kits costs $45 and a pack of 20 $90. The link is a document describing what is in the kit, how the circuit is used and how to purchase kits. Prac and support notes are also available.
Text Resources
Duncan, T 1989, Electronics for Today and Tomorrow, John Murray.
Hecht, J 1999, Understanding Fibre Optics, SLMS Prentice Hall.
Tekpak Teachers' Guide, 1992, Department of Education, Victoria.
Audiovisual Resources
It is recommended that teachers should view any video before purchase.
Marcom Projects: Electronic Components 1, 2 and 3
Classroom Activities
Transistor amplifier support notes: Detailed (7p) explanatory notes prepared by Dr Peter Wells, Monash University (pdf file) for teachers (259k)
LED Exercise: A Word document to investigate the LED with questions and comments.(KB) 102k
Transistor Amplifier: A Word document explaining the operation of the transistor amplifier with some questions and answers.(KB) 45k
LED and Amplifier Exercise: A Word document of follow up exercises to the documents above.(KB) 107k
Transistor amplifier : Brief explanatory notes. (PC) 210k
DC and AC circuits of the transistor amplifer (for teachers). (PC) 53k
Class notes on capacitors. Class notes and graphs explaining the charging and discharging of a capacitor. (46k - Word 97/2000)
IT Applications
Useful Websites
Transistor applet. The simulation that shows the link between input to output signal, saturation and cut-off occurring, varying the Q point and its affects; you vary the voltage divider ratio, and input voltages.
Australian Photonics Institute
Victorian Photonics Network
Revising Year 11 Resistance concepts A worksheet that uses the software Crocodile Clips (and Excel) to revise resistance and V/I graphs. (870k - Word 97/2000)
Experimenting with a virtual thermistor A worksheet that uses the software Crocodile Clips to explore how the resistance of a thermistorchanges with temperature. (504k - Word 97/2000)
Tutorial on amplifier design
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