Circuits and Electronics
(Fall 2026)

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Announcements

  1. First Class Meeting: We will have a recitation on Wednesday during the first week of classes (9 Sep). For this first week:

    • If you were assigned a section by the registrar and are able to attend that section, please do.
    • If not, please come to any section that works with your schedule.

    See below for more information about section scheduling (starting with the lab at the end of the first week, we will use our own section assignments.

  2. Lecture and Overflow Room: 6.200 is slightly oversubscribed for the room we're currently assigned to for lectures on Tuesdays/Thursdays. As such, for the first few sessions at least, we will have an overflow room in 5-234 with a live video feed from the lecture hall; if there is no room left in 4-370 when you arrive for lecture, please move to 5-234.

  3. First Problem Set: Problem sets typically release on Tuesday evenings and come due the following Monday at 10pm. The first problem set will release on the first day of classes (9 Sep) at 8am; it will be available through a link in the calendar below at that time.

  4. Section Preferences: Starting with the lab on 11 Sep, we will do our own section assignments in 6.200. Please fill out the section preferences form by 11am on Thursday, 10 Sep. We'll use your responses there to assign lab and recitation sections, and we'll send e-mail in the evening on 10 Sep with the results.

  5. Course Information: Detailed information about the subject is available on the several pages linked under the "Information" header in the menu bar at the top of the page. Please review those poages carefully and let us know if you have any questions. You are responsible for reading and understanding the information on those pages.

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
008 Sep
No Lecture
(Registration Day)
09 Sep
Lumped Element Abstraction
10 Sep
Nodal Analysis
11 Sep
Scopes, Breadboards, Sensors
PS00
115 Sep
Supernodes, Series/Parallel Combinations
16 Sep
Simplification
17 Sep
Current and Voltage Dividers
18 Sep
Buttons, Pots, and Joysticks
PS01
222 Sep
Linearity, Superposition
23 Sep
Superposition
24 Sep
Equivalent Circuits
25 Sep
Gamepad
PS02
329 Sep
Dependent Sources
30 Sep
Equivalent Circuit Examples
01 Oct
Equivalent Circuits with Dependent Sources
02 Oct
Digital-to-Analog Converter
PS03
406 Oct
Capacitors and First-order Circuits
07 Oct
Inductors and First-order Circuits
08 Oct
Intuitive Analysis of First-order Circuits
09 Oct
Capacitive Touch Sensor
PS04
513 Oct
No Lecture
(Indigenous Peoples' Day)
14 Oct
RC/LR Examples
15 Oct
Impulse Response
16 Oct
oscillator2
PS05
620 Oct
Operational Amplifiers
21 Oct
Op-Amp Examples
22 Oct
Op-Amp Applications
23 Oct
Motor Control
No PSet
727 Oct
Op-Amp Comparator and Oscillator
28 Oct
No Recitation
(Midterm on Wednesday evening)
29 Oct
LC Circuits
30 Oct
Light-following Robot
PS07
803 Nov
RLC Circuits
04 Nov
Second-order step and impulse response
05 Nov
Sinusoidal Steady State
06 Nov
Bass Boost
PS08
910 Nov
Impedance Methods
11 Nov
No Recitation
(Veterans Day)
12 Nov
Frequency Response
13 Nov
Frequency Response
PS09
1017 Nov
Resonance and Quality Factor
18 Nov
Impedance and Freq Resp Examples
19 Nov
Second-order Circuits and Filtering
20 Nov
Optical Communication
PS10
1124 Nov
Complete Solution
25 Nov
Complete Solution Examples
26 Nov
No Lecture
(Thanksgiving)
27 Nov
No Lab
(Thanksgiving)
No PSet
1201 Dec
Higher-order Systems
02 Dec
Higher-order Systems
03 Dec
Phasors and Transfer Functions
04 Dec
Power Up!
PS12
1308 Dec
Two-port networks, modularity
09 Dec
Wrap-up
10 Dec
Wrap-up
11 Dec
No lab
No PSet

Final Exam: TBD