Circuits and Electronics
(Fall 2025)
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Announcements
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6.200: Endgame The end of the term is rapidly approaching, and our schedule will be affected as described below:
- Our last class meeting will be a lecture on Tuesday, 9 Dec. We won't have a recitation on Wednesday (10 Dec).
- Although there is no lab during week 14, we will have 34-501 open during all of the normal lab sections as extra open lab hours: Thursday (11 Dec) from 2-5pm and Friday (12 Dec) from 10am-1pm and 2-5pm.
- We will continue to run open lab hours and instructor office hours up to and including the Sunday evening before our final exam (14 Dec), but we will not have any office hours or open lab hours on that Monday (15 Dec).
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Final Exam Review Materials: Information and review materials for the final exam are now available.
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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 Video | 15 Oct Buffers | 16 Oct The Ideal Op-Amp Video | 17 Oct Motor Control | No PSet |
| 7 | 21 Oct Op-Amp Topologies Video | 22 Oct No Recitation (Midterm on Tuesday evening) | 23 Oct Op-Amp Topologies Video circuits.pdf | 24 Oct Light-following Robot | PS07 |
| 8 | 28 Oct RC Circuits: Sinusoidal Steady State Video math.pdf | 29 Oct SSS Examples | 30 Oct Impedance Video | 31 Oct Bass Boost | PS08 |
| 9 | 04 Nov Frequency Response; Bode Plots Video | 05 Nov Filtering slides.pdf | 06 Nov LC Circuits Video | 07 Nov Frequency Response | PS09 |
| 10 | 11 Nov No Lecture (Veterans Day) | 12 Nov LC and RLC Circuits math.pdf | 13 Nov RLC in Time; Quality Factor Video series_rlc_step_response.py | 14 Nov Power Up! | PS10 |
| 11 | 18 Nov RLC Circuits: Frequency Domain Video rlc_series_fr.py | 19 Nov RLC in Frequency | 20 Nov RLC in Frequency: Q Video | 21 Nov Buck Converter | PS11 |
| 12 | 25 Nov RLC Circuits: Complete Solution Video | 26 Nov No Recitation | 27 Nov No Lecture (Thanksgiving) | 28 Nov No Lab (Thanksgiving) | No PSet |
| 13 | 02 Dec Transfer Functions Video | 03 Dec Sallen-Key | 04 Dec Transfer Functions: Interpreting Poles and Zeros Video | 05 Dec Optical Communication | No PSet |
| 14 | 09 Dec Wrap-up | 10 Dec No Recitation (No Classes) | 11 Dec No Lecture (No Classes) | 12 Dec No lab | No PSet |
Final Exam: Tuesday, 16 Dec, 9am-12noon, 50-340 (Walker Gym) | |||||