2011-2012 TEL3M ACTIVITIES

Activity 6. The First NAND Gate Circuit

This is your final ER Submission for this course. Include the following,

 

Update your TOC and attach your ER to an email to handin with the Subject Line: The First NAND Gate Circuit.

Activity 5. 3D Christmas Tree

Under appropriate Heading 3 subheadings, your ER writeup for this activity will include the following.

  1. A paragraph describing your kit (include a full Parts List set up as a table, consistent with your previous table formats)
  2. The schematic of the 3D Christmas Tree circuit below. Since it is quite wide, you should center-align the graphic on the page.

  3. A photo of your 3D Christmas Tree accompanied by a link to a video of your Tree in action, stored in your TEL3M First Class Web Publishing folder or Personal YT channel and linked to from within your ER writeup of this Activity. Note: Be sure to include your name in the field of the video as in this sample.
  4. Update your TOC.
Attach your ER to an email to handin with the Subject: Activity 5. 3D Christmas Tree by the requested deadine.

Activity 4. The Basic Digital Logic Gates

For this weekend's submission you are asked to,

  1. Complete the Exercise: The Basic Digital Logic Gates found on page 72. Using your highly developed hanging indent skills, retype the questions and provide your answers for the eight questions.
  2. Replicate Table L16-6. Comapring the Gates that appears on page 72. You will notice the author's formatting of the table in the workbook falls short of your standards for column widths. Underneath the name of each gate add the gate symbol available from our home page under the ICON Column in Lessons 25 and 26.

Be sure to update your Table of Contents prior to submission.

Appendix A. Tables and Exercises

The Binary Number System

Within Appendix A. Tables and Exercises and under the subheading The Binary Number System (in Heading 3 style) enter the questions below and supply your answers.

  1. In your own words, what is the ASCII Table and explain its purpose. Provide a link to this web site in your ER.
  2. In your own words, what is Unicode and explain why it was required. Provide a link to this web site in your ER.
  3. What is your surname in binary? Present your answer in a well-formatted table.
  4. Translate the encoded message below into English with the help of the ASCII Table. Use a well-organized and formatted table to present your results.

    Here is the code in text form if you would find it useful. A word of advice: You could convert the binary codes directly to decimal (Base 10) and then look them up in the ASCII table, but you may find it easier to convert the binary numbers to their hexadecimal (Base 16) equivalent, and use these values to determine the character. Not to mention the benefit of further experience with the important hexadecimal number system.
  5. Question 2 on page 66.
  6. Question 3 on page 66.
  7. Question 4 on page 66.

Do not forget to update your TOC. Submit your ER as an attachment to an email to handin with the Subject: The Binary Number System

Activity X. Professional Style Alarm System

Your writeup for this activity will include,

  1. Graphic of Figure L12-7 (adjacent).
  2. Digital photos of the front and back of your working, soldered PCB.
  3. Provide a link to Figure L12-7, the animated alarm.
  4. Type in the Exercise questions 1-8 from page 45 and merge in these answers using your (pro) formatting skills. You are responsible for understanding these supplied answers as they may be part of the future assessments.
  5. Update your TOC.

Submit your ER as an attachment to an email to handin with the Subject: Activity 4. Professional Style Alarm System

Appendix B: Quizzes and Tests

Analog Review

  1. Insert the file Quiz3.docx into your ER, starting on a new page following your previous Resistors quiz.
  2. Adapt the formatting as well as the headers and footers, to your current ER style.
  3. Provide complete and accurate answers.
  4. Update your TOC.
  5. There is no need for a separate submission of this effort since Activity 4 is also due today (Saturday November 27).

Activity 3. The Automatic Night Light

Your writeup for this activity will include,

  1. Purpose, Reference and Procedure subsections (Heading 3 Style) with appropriate content.
  2. Circuitmaker graphic of Figure L12-1 (right)
  3. Digital photos of front and back of your soldered PCB
  4. Questions and your full sentence, hanging indent-laden, responses to #'s 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, and 10 on pp. 44-47.
  5. (Optional) You own personal You Tube Video Channel.

Address, but do not remove, the concerns expressed in ALL my comments embedded in your ER.doc from last submission. Submit your ER.docx as an attachment to an email to handin with the Subject Line: Activity 3. The Automatic Night Light

 

Activity 2. The NPN Transistor

This is a major assignment.
If you use class time wisely to gather the necessary data and develop a quality submission you will be rewarded.

Turn to page 33 and review the Exercise based on Lesson 9. You are asked to complete this exercise as described below.

  1. Starting on a new page, immediately following Activity 1 and prior to Appendix A, include the title Activity 2. The NPN Transistor, in Heading 1 Style.
  2. Add the subtitle, Exercise: Introducing Transistors in Heading 3 Style as usual.
  3. Insert 2 consecutive Continuous Section Breaks.
  4. Position the cursor between the Continuous Section Breaks and define a 2-column format.
  5. Turn off Auto-Numbering.
  6. Insert the unformatted questions.
  7. Format the questions using your hanging indent skills and supply your best, concise formatted answers to each.
  8. Insert a Column Break(s) at the most strategic location(s) to avoid orphans (a question in one place and its answer in another)
  9. Embed within your columns a closeup digital photo (200px wide, 1px black border) of your NPN Transistor circuit clearly showing the parts and their connections
  10. Strategically place a copy of the schematic of the circuit (to the right) in a column between questions.
  11. Update your TOC.

After ensuring all corrections have been addressed from your previous submission (without removing my comments) and with Headers and Footers in place, submit your ER.docx as an attachment to an email to handin with the Subject Line: Activity 2. The NPN Transistor, by the deadline.


ER Resubmission (Optional for most). All students should address their ER comments.

  1. Those students who have EVER missed a week's submission MUST complete the assignment and resubmit this Saturday.
  2. All students are invited to resubmit their corrected ERs this Saturday for increased credit once ALL corrections have been made.
  3. Those students who received less than 8/10 for last week's submission would be foolish not to resubmit.

Appendix B. Quizzes and Tests

To ensure your Engineering Report is as complete a study guide as possible in preparation for the final evaluation in late January, you will insert all the CORRECTED quizzes and tests administered in the course into your ER.

Task.

  1. Insert a page break after Appendix A. Tables and Exercises
  2. Add the text, Appendix B. Quizzes and Tests in Heading 1 style
  3. Add the text, Quiz 1. Greek Alphabet in Heading 3 style
  4. Add a blank paragraph and then Insert Quiz1GreekAlphabet.docx, removing the existing title that appears in Heading 1 style
  5. Adjust other formatting details as required
  6. Complete the missing entries in the table
  7. At the end of the table, insert a Next Page Section Break
  8. Switch to Landscape orientation (Page Layout menu)
  9. Add the text, Quiz 2. Resistors in Heading 3 style
  10. Add a blank paragrpah and then insert Quiz2Resistors.docx, adjusting rulers, margins, etc. as necessary to remain consistent with the rest of your Engineering Report.
  11. Add the correct answers
  12. At the end of the quiz, insert a Next Page Section Break and switch back to Portait orientation

Appendix A. Tables and Exercises

In addtion to formal Activity writeups, you will be asked to add a table of results to your Engineering Report. These tables will be added to Appendix A that follows your Activity section.

Task.

  1. You are to duplicate the formatting of Table L5-1 as closely as possible
  2. Insert a page break after Activity 1. Measuring Voltage.
  3. Add the text Appendix A. Tables and Exercises in Heading 1 Style
  4. Add the text Table L5-1 in Heading 3 style
  5. Add the 8 by 5 table from page 18, centered on the page.
  6. Add the measurement data, center-aligned within each cell. Replace the 100 Ω with the 1000 Ω resistor and reorder the rows accordingly
  7. Add borders and alternate background shading that will remain consistent throughout ALL your future ER tables.

Activity 1. Measuring Voltage

Complete the Activity below as the first entry in your Engineering Report.
Maximize your Word skills to produce a format worthy of your readers' time.
Include the Title, Reference, Purpose, Procedure (full sentence answers to Steps 4 to 7, laid out as a numbered list), and Conclusion.
Don't forget to update your Table of Contents with the Title and subsections as entries for the Activity.
Attach your Engineering Report to an email to handin with the Subject: Activity 1. Measuring Voltage by the required due date.
NOTE: Since we're using an AC/DC adapter as our power source in 2011/2012, substitute any workbook reference to a 9V battery in the questions with AC/DC adapter.

Reference
[Include as is] Adapted from Lesson 3: Your First Circuit. (Evil Genius: pp. 11-14). Include a hyperlink containing the URL of this project description.

Purpose
[Include as is] To learn how voltage levels are affected as current passes through passive electronic components in a circuit.

Theory
[Insert a photo of your circuit, no larger than 200 px wide, right justify and add a border] [Include as is] Power sources are rated for a given voltage. Your AC/DC adapter is rated at 9V. The battery in your family car is 12V, whereas typical flashlight batteries are 1.5V. The rectangular battery in your household's smoke detector is 9V. To perform the task for which an electronic component has been designed, voltage is consumed. The circuit designer must therefore ensure that recommended voltage levels are achieved at each point in a circuit if components are to meet their optimum performance.

Procedure
Using the DMM, complete Steps 1 to 8 as directed on pp 13-14. Enter your measurements

Conclusion
If you have performed the Activity correctly, the conclusion you will write should be apparent. Explain the fundamental concept of voltage drop in a working circuit, clearly and succinctly in your own words.

Activity 0 - Lemon Power

Before you begin your year, you should decide what your approach will be.

Are you a minimalist, whipping the work off as fast as you can to simply 'get it over with' ?
Or, at the other extreme, are you prone to rambling on in the hope that the teacher will eventually find everything anyone could possibly include on a topic?

My recommendation lies in the middle. Think deeply and write economically.
A succinct, well-conceived response will maintain your readers' attention while still garnering the credit you're hoping for.

Section A. To get the juices flowing so to speak, you are asked to explore the ability of a few simple household items, in combination, to generate electricity. Undertake the steps outlined below and records your answers and measurements.

  1. Without resorting to any form of research, what is your simplest, straightforward explanation for the concept of electricity?
  2. Research the basic construction of a dry cell battery (e.g 1.5V AAA, AA, C, D) and, in your own words, include a simple, straightforward explanation how this kind of battery works.
  3. What are the two fundamental units used to quantify electricity in a circuit.
Section B. Despite the fact that the amount of electricity we use in this course to power our circuits is small, it is important that it be deployed in precise amounts. The tool we'll use to monitor the electricity is called a Digital Multi meter, or DMM for short. These are relatively expensive devices so please handle them with care.
  1. Turn on the DMM, position the center dial to Volts, V, and toggle the FUNC button so DC appears on the LCD screen.
Section C. The parts you have at your disposal include a lemon, a galvanized screw, a copper penny, two alligator clip wires, an LED and a DMM.
  1. Google an image of the electron shell for Zinc. How many electrons inhabit its outer shell? Do the same for Copper.
  2. Why might these observations make these elements well-suited for the promotion of electricity?
  3. Explain how inserting a galvanized metal screw and a copper penny in a lemon mimics the construction of a dry cell battery.
  4. Using your alligator clips and DDM probe, measure and record the voltage of your lemon battery.

Section D. Presumably the purpose of understanding electricity is so that we can put it to work. Typically this involves assembling a sequence of components that convert electricity into useful output. Each of you have been given the same type of LED.

  1. Your LED is a useful device. It converts electricity into visible light. Remembering our discussion of the design of an LED, connect it to your lemon battery and record your observation of its behaviour.
  2. Is the output of your LED any different from the other students'?
  3. Explain how you could work with a partner to improve the output of the LED.