Circuits and Electronics
(Fall 2025)
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Announcements
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Holiday Schedule:
- Because of the holiday, problem set 5 will come due on Tuesday (14 Oct) at 10pm instead of the usual Monday deadline.
- We will hold our normal office hours and open lab hours on Sunday (12 Oct) and Monday (13 Oct).
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Midterm Information and Review Materials are now available from the following page: Midterm Review Materials
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Section Assignments: We've made our first round of section assignments.
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Calendar
This calendar shows the current plan, though some of the details may change as we work our way through the semester.
| Week | Lecture A (Tuesday) |
Recitation (Wednesday) |
Lecture B (Thursday) |
Design Lab (Friday) |
PSet |
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| 0 | 02 Sep No Lecture (No Classes) | 03 Sep Lumped Element Abstraction participation.pdf slides.pdf | 04 Sep Nodal Analysis; Supernodes Video circuits.pdf participation.pdf participation_answers.pdf | 05 Sep Scopes, Breadboards, Sensors | PS00 |
| 1 | 09 Sep Series/Parallel Combinations Video circuits.pdf participation.pdf participation_answers.pdf | 10 Sep Loading participation.pdf | 11 Sep Current and Voltage Dividers Video circuits.pdf participation.pdf participation_answers.pdf | 12 Sep Gamepad | PS01 |
| 2 | 16 Sep Linearity, Superposition Video circuits.pdf | 17 Sep Superposition | 18 Sep Equivalent Circuits Video | 19 Sep No Lab (Student Holiday) | PS02 |
| 3 | 23 Sep Thévenin and Norton Video circuits.pdf | 24 Sep Finding Equivalent Circuits | 25 Sep Using Equivalent Circuits Video circuits.pdf | 26 Sep Digital-to-Analog Converter | PS03 |
| 4 | 30 Sep Dependent Sources Video circuits.pdf | 01 Oct Dependent Sources | 02 Oct Superposition/Thévenin/Norton with Dependent Sources Video circuits.pdf | 03 Oct MOSFET Audio Amplifier | PS04 |
| 5 | 07 Oct Capacitors and Inductors Video | 08 Oct RC/LR Circuits | 09 Oct RC/LR Circuits Video circuits.pdf | 10 Oct Capacitive Touch Sensor | PS05 |
| 6 | 14 Oct Operational Amplifiers | 15 Oct Op-Amps as Oscillators | 16 Oct Closing the Loop, The Ideal Op-Amp | 17 Oct Motor Control | No PSet |
| 7 | 21 Oct Op-Amp Topologies | 22 Oct No Recitation (Midterm on Tuesday evening) | 23 Oct Op-Amp Topologies | 24 Oct Light-following Robot | PS07 |
| 8 | 28 Oct RC Circuits: Sinusoidal Steady State | 29 Oct SSS Examples | 30 Oct Impedance | 31 Oct Bass Boost | PS08 |
| 9 | 04 Nov Frequency Response; Bode Plots | 05 Nov Filtering | 06 Nov LC Circuits | 07 Nov Frequency Response | PS09 |
| 10 | 11 Nov No Lecture (Veterans Day) | 12 Nov LC and RLC Circuits | 13 Nov RLC in Time; Quality Factor | 14 Nov Power to the People | PS10 |
| 11 | 18 Nov RLC Circuits: Frequency Domain | 19 Nov RLC in Frequency | 20 Nov RLC in Frequency: Q | 21 Nov Buck Converter | PS11 |
| 12 | 25 Nov RLC Circuits: Complete Solution | 26 Nov No Recitation | 27 Nov No Lecture (Thanksgiving) | 28 Nov No Lab (Thanksgiving) | PS12 |
| 13 | 02 Dec Transfer Functions | 03 Dec Transfer Functions | 04 Dec Transfer Functions | 05 Dec Optical Communication | PS13 |
| 14 | 09 Dec Wrap-up | 10 Dec TBD | 11 Dec No Lecture (No Classes) | 12 Dec No lab | No PSet |
Final Exam: Tuesday, 16 Dec, 9am-12noon, 50-340 (Walker Gym) | |||||