
II.
LABORATORY
DEVELOPMENT
NOTES
A.
LABORATORY
DESIGN
The
majority
of
the
development
centered
around
providing
adequate
setups
and
circuits
that
would
demonstrate
the
basic
theories
and
concepts
of
communications
analysis.
The
laboratories
were
developed
with
the
following
questions
in
mind:
1.
What
are
the
concepts
that
have
been
covered
and
need
to
be
demonstrated
at
this
particular
point
in
the
course?
2.
What
research
circuits
and/or
setups
will
accomplish
the
demonstration
of
these
concepts?
3.
Are
the
chosen
circuits
and/or
setups
at
a
level
of
student
understanding?
4.
What
steps
are
required
to
accomplish
the
laboratory?
5.
What
questions
allow
the
student
to
gain
insight
to
the
theory
from
analysis
of
the
laboratory
data?
6.
Are
the
setups/circuits
reconstructible
using
the
documented
steps?
Do
they
adequately
demonstrate
concepts
that
require
laboratory
emphasis?
Each
lab,
with
the
exception
of
Laboratory
3,
takes
approximately
2-3
hours
to
complete,
depending
on
the
experience
of
the
student.
Laboratory
3
takes
approximately
4
hours
due
to
the
extent
of
the
calculations
and
the
introduction
of
new
equipment.
The
estimated
time
was
hard
to
judge
since
they
have
not
been
tested
from
a
student's
point
of
view.
B.
LABORATORY
1:
INTRODUCTION
TO
LABORATORY
EQUIPMENT
Laboratory
1
was
completed
last,
taking
into
account
the
equipment
and
basic
working
knowledge
required
for
the
rest
of
the
laboratories.
The
equipment
for
the
first
laboratory
was
included,
as
well
as
that
common
to
most.
This
lab
was
constructed
with
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