ELEC 241 Lab

Before Lab

In Experiment 3.2 we will be measuring the transfer function of a circuit. This will be one of the more complex and tedious measurements that we will make this semester. Although there's nothing really difficult about it, it's not something you want to be reading about for the first time when you're in the lab trying to do it. You would be well advised to look over the Background section and the Interlude on Measuring Transfer Function and make sure you understand what the procedure is and how it works before coming to lab.

Also, one of the Questions in Experiment 3.2 asks you to compute and plot (using Matlab) the expected transfer function for the circuit you build. Although you could do this after doing the lab, it would be better to do it beforehand so that if your measured and expected functions don't agree you can investigate the cause. This computation is the one used as an example in the Matlab tutorial so you should be able to use that as a starting point.