Electronics

 

In this lab we used both a wave function generator and a oscilloscope to produce voltage's that vary over time and are displayed on the oscilloscope screen. The oscilloscope uses an electron gun to shoot electrons through two separate sets of deflection plates, the horizontal plates moves the electrons across the screen at a constant rate, The vertical plates receive voltage from input that is reflected on the screen, in this case the wave function generator.

 

The wave function generator is used to adjust  frequency and to amplitude that is going to be displayed on the oscilloscope.

Here we generated a sinusoidal wave using a 96 Hz frequency, using the amplitude control we increased the amplitude of the since wave.

Here is the mystery box we were given after using the wave function, we used two inputs to observe what type of waves would be produced by the box.

Here were the differing functions we found using the mystery box had quite similar waves with varying periods determined by an unknown frequency.