Top use? Trade a function generator to the building's superintendent so that he will tell you how tall the building is and you can keep the neat clock.
Suggest video on Top10 uses for function generators for someone who “does a bit of everything “.
I will just like to stress the points useful to test the AC Band width of DMM and performance of your scopes.
Top use? Trade a function generator to the building's superintendent so that he will tell you how tall the building is and you can keep the neat clock.
I thought it was a barometer, but maybe that is just an old version of the story before atomic clocks became easily portable
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10) connect it to the newly acquired oscilloscope and watch the waveforms while pondering top 10 uses for an oscilloscope
Will carry on without until the need hits me over the head (or until someone makes an inspirational video for those poor fools who've bought them already & don't know what to do).
Top use? Trade a function generator to the building's superintendent so that he will tell you how tall the building is and you can keep the neat clock.
I thought it was a barometer, but maybe that is just an old version of the story before atomic clocks became easily portable
It depends on the class. The last time I took physics, it was a perfectly spherical clock instead of a barometer.
I'm probably confusing it with a spherical cow.
The video after that might consider top 10 used for a car.
Top use? Trade a function generator to the building's superintendent so that he will tell you how tall the building is and you can keep the neat clock.
I thought it was a barometer, but maybe that is just an old version of the story before atomic clocks became easily portable
It depends on the class. The last time I took physics, it was a perfectly spherical clock instead of a barometer.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this kind of project being set as part of an academic course. As some of you may know, I design sensor products for a living; sometimes these are an off-the-shelf component packaged up in a convenient way for the application, other times they're designed from the ground up starting with the underlying physics.
Learning how to google a data sheet, make sense of it and infer what supporting components a sensor will need is something which can be readily done in industry, and it's the sort of thing I'd fully expect to teach a junior engineer on the job. Being able to do it correctly is more about experience than theory, and you really don't need to take up precious course hours decoding some particular vendor's badly documented register set, or trying to solder a QFN without wrecking it. They're practical skills that I can teach someone quite easily.
In an academic course, I'd hope and expect that students will be taught the principles of operation of these sensors. How do they really work? What are the underlying physical processes going on? What factors influence their readings? What are the fundamental, theoretical limits on how well then can work? Why might a given type of sensor be a good choice in application A, but entirely inappropriate in application B? What knowledge and insight can a graduate bring to my company that I can't read for myself off a manufacturer's data sheet?