GC University, Faisalabad.

Course Outlines
Fall, 2023-24
Class: BS IT Semester: 1 st
PHY-321 Applied Physics 3 (2 – 1)
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Objectives: Introduction of Electronics

Course Outline:
Electric force and its applications and related problems , conservation of charge,
charge quantization, electronic materials, Fundamentals of Semiconductor
physics: Band theory, semiconductors (intrinsic and extrinsic), pn junction, pn
junctions as a rectifier, clipper and clamper circuits, zener diode and voltage
regulator, LED and LCD etc.,

Transistors: Bipolar Junction transistors, BJT biasing circuits, Q-point, BJT as a

switch, BJT amplifiers, classes of amplifiers, power amplifiers, Metal oxide
transistors, nMOS, pMOS and CMOS inverters circuits. Introduction to A/D and
D/A conversion circuits

List of Experiments
Sr.
No. Experiment
Electrical Circuits Simulation using Multisim Electronics Workbench.
1. To study basic Multisim tools
To become familiar with the characteristics of a silicon diode.
2. Identify diode schematic symbols.
Describe Silicon based diode operating characteristics.
Identify diode construction characteristics.
Observe normal operations in a diode circuit.
VI characteristic curve for the diode
Half-wave rectifier.
4. To become familiar with positive half wave rectifier.
To become familiar with negative half wave rectifier
To reduce ripple factor
Full-wave center tapped rectifier configuration.
5. To become familiar with positive full-wave conventional rectifier.
To become familiar with negative full-wave conventional rectifier
Full-wave Graetz(bridge) rectifier configuration.
6. To become familiar with positive full-wave bridge rectifier.
To become familiar with negative full-wave bridge rectifier
To study the operation of unbiased Diode Limiters.
7. Identify the positive diode limiter operating characteristics.
Identify the negative diode limiter operating characteristics
Identify the parallel positive and negative diode limiter operating characteristics
To study the operation of Diode Biased Limiters.
8. Describe positive diode biased limiter operating characteristics.
Describe positive diode biased limiter operating characteristics.
Describe parallel positive and negative diode biased limiter operating characteristics.
To study the operation of unbiased Diode Clampers and biased clampers.
9. Identity diode clamper schematic symbols.
Describe diode clamper operating characteristics.
To use a positive clamping circuit.
To use a negative clamping circuit.
To use a positively biased clamper
 To use a negatively biased clamper.
BJT characteristics
10. To test the BJT transistor and leads.
To graph the collector characteristics of a transistor test its three terminal
Common Emitter Amplifier
11. To observe input-output waveforms of common emitter (CE) amplifier.
Transistor as Switch
12. To understand working of transistor as a switch.
To draw dc load line for given circuit
Reference Material:
1) University Physics by Freedman and Young (10 th and higher editions).
2) College Physics by Resnick, Halliday and Krane (6th and higher edition)
3) Fundamentals of Physics (Extended), 10th edition, Resnick and Walker
4) Narciso Garcia, Arthur Damask, Steven Schwarz., “Physics for Computer Science
Students”, Springer Verlag, 1998

Concerned Teacher
Dr. M. Zeshan Yaqoob
Lecturer in Physics
GCUF