Here are my thoughts on the third week's material, etc.

• This week's material is background material on signals that they need generally to know.
• Sinusoidal signal parameters are the focus - Amplitude, frequency (including angular frequency - "omega") and phase.
• But, the labs get the students to think about limitations that are caused by instrument sampling.
• The concept of sampling is something that I have just begun to emphasize (Spring 2008).  Since these students are generally CEs, MEs, ChemEs, etc., they take a lot of measurments in their lab courses, and, now, much of that data isw stuffed directly into files.  They need a little material on sampling and the Nyquist limit.  They probably don't need a whole week, and I have to figure out how to adjust the schedule to accomodate a very short segment here.
• Labs are devoted to simply taking time response data using pre-written LabVIEW programs.
• The labs here let students get acquainted with an oscilloscope.  They are probably too short.  And, in this year's redesign of the course I am going to change the labs and move the tachometer experiment to this point.  See below.  Anyhow, those two labs go together and make a good pair.  That leaves some space for more
• In-Class exercises
• There are a number of good in-class exercises.
• Class Notes - Good
• Some things to think about.
• Several years ago there was more material on scopes here.  In the notebook I have included an old lab that I will use here next time.
• Sensors encountered to this point in the course.
• Thermocouples
• LM35s - giving two examples of sensors with voltage outputs
• Thermistor - giving an example of a sensor with a resistance change.
• Thoughts about where this is at this point.
• Need to develop - or resurrect - material on scopes.  Somehow, that material gradually worked its way out of this part of the course, and the students could use it.