Sensitive Altimeter; A Basic Electronics Project for Undergraduates
Abstract
Projects with transducers are useful in the basic electronics laboratory to prepare students that will go to work in industry or attend graduate school in an experimental area of physics when they graduate. During the spring semester of 2006 the class constructed very sensitive altimeters using state of the art pressure sensors and integrated circuit amplifiers. Students participated in the basic design, breadboarding and construction. The project will be described as well as the digital system used to test them at the end of the semester.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006AAS...20914825B