What Textbook Should I Use for Teaching an Introductory Electronics Course?

[Scott Hill]

Next fall I will be teaching an electronics class for the first time, for undergraduate physics majors (who have already taken introductory E&M and integral calculus, not necessarily PDEs). The catalog description is

"An introduction to analog and digital electronics. Topics include DC and AC circuits, transistors, amplifiers, Boolean logic, logic circuits, analog-digital conversions, and applications. Two lectures and one 3-hour laboratory per week."​

I would like suggestions for a textbook, or perhaps more generally a syllabus of what to cover and when.

Thanks!

 

[Dr Transport]

http://www.sophphx.caltech.edu/Physics_5/Physics_5_105_README.pdf

 

[Stuschreib]

"The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill is a classic. There is an accompanying lab manual, or at least there was for the early editions.
I believe the syllabus for Harvard's Physics123 is available on the internet; it is a renowned electronics crash-course.

Stu

 

[smodak]

This is from a course of one of India's premiere engineering institutes.

http://www.iitg.ac.in/apvajpeyi/ph218/PH-218 - Introduction.pdf

More information (e.g. texts, lecture notes etc.) can be found here.
http://www.iitg.ac.in/apvajpeyi/ph218.html

Lab related material
http://www.iitg.ac.in/apvajpeyi/ph210.html

I have no personal experience with this course, instructor, or the institute.

 

[Scott Hill]

Thank you for the responses, and apologies for the late reply. (Semester finally ended.) I got a copy of Hayes and Horowitz (the lab manual connected to H&H), but I found it rather difficult going: I think it leaves a lot unsaid, and would be difficult for a first-time electronics student to follow. Maybe an experienced electronics instructor could fill in the gaps, but I don't fit that bill.
I do like the CalTech manual, and I may end up using it. I have to go order some op-amps first, though; that book really LOVES op-amps. :)