PHYS 353Digital Electronics
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1970–71 to 1994–95 (before that, 1969–70 used the number for Intermediate Laboratory); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Logic gates, flip-flops and shift registers. Binary numbers and Boolean algebra. An introduction to microprocessors is discussed based on the 6800. This will include arithmetic logic units, parallel input/output ports, assembly language and a number of examples.
As printed in the 1981–82 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Coreq: PHYS 353L
Antireq: CS 351, E&CE 223
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
3 posts and comments in 2 threads mention PHYS 353, September 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2017
Phys 353 for Math Phys student? 1 point, 1 comment
u/Jamach: “Was thinking of taking Phys 353 this summer along with my 2B courses: PHYS 234 Quantum Physics 1 PHYS 242 Electricity and Magnetism 1 PHYS 263 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity AMATH 231 Calculus 4 (I'm taking Stat 230 online during co-op now) Was wondering if anyone …”
u/VanuitDeBos: “Do you mean AMATH 353, PDEs?”
u/Jamach: “Ahh, no, at the time of my post, Phys 353 was still a course but now it was changed to Phys 390 something.”
Fall 2011
Hey guys, what are the easiest third year/fourth year Science courses you guys know about? Preferably in BIOL but I'm open to other sciences as well. 3 points, 8 comments
u/Stefanido: “PHYS 352 and 353. Analogue and Digital Electronics respectively. No prereqs, lenient marking, fun times. Associated labs for each, which you may be able to skip out on, but is not recommended.”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1969–70 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1981–82 to 1994–95 14 calendars
Logic gates, flip-flops and shift registers. Binary numbers and Boolean algebra. An introduction to microprocessors is discussed based on the 6800. This will include arithmetic logic units, parallel input/output ports, assembly language and a number of examples.
Coreq: PHYS 353L
Antireq: CS 351, E&CE 223
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1979–80 to 1980–81 2 calendars
Titled Electronics 2.
A continuation of the study of electronic circuits. Introduction to simple digital circuits. Commonly used analogue and digital instruments.
Prereq: Phys 352. Coreq: 353L.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1978–79 1 calendar
Titled Electronics 2.
Application of feedback to operational amplifiers, oscillators and multivibrators. Analogue measurements. Survey of modern electronic circuits such as TV, FM or computer elements. -
~ Phys 353L Ww 3L 0.25
Electronics 2 Laboratory For students taking Phys 353. Lab. alternate weeks
Prereq: Phys 352. Coreq: Phys 353L
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1970–71 to 1977–78 8 calendars
Titled Electronics 2.
Applications of feedback to oscillators, operational amplifiers, analogue computers and multi-vibrators. Introduction to digital circuits. Prerequisite: Physics 352* Corequisite: Physics 353L* 2 lectures, Winter term
1969–70 1 calendar
Another title: Intermediate Laboratory, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Further experiments in mechanics, heat, sound, optics, spectroscopy, X- ray, atomic physics, electricity, magnetism and electronics. 3 hours laboratory.