Circuits and Electronics
(Spring 2026)
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Announcement
Due to the Monday holiday (2/16) and Monday schedule on Tuesday, the following adjustments have been made to the schedule:
- Pset 01 will now be due Tuesday at 10pm.
- Open lab hours will be held with the following schedule:
- Sunday 7-10pm (typical)
- Tuesday 7-10pm (adjusted)
- No open lab hours on Monday 7-10pm
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 03 Feb Lumped elements, KVL, KCL slides.pdf | 04 Feb Nodes, loops, KVL, KCL, signs, power | 05 Feb Labels, brute-force analysis, resistor combinations slides.pdf | 06 Feb Scopes, Breadboards, Sensors | PS00 |
| 1 | 10 Feb Circuit simplification, node analysis slides.pdf | 11 Feb Node analysis compared to brute-force analysis | 12 Feb Linearity and superposition slides.pdf | 13 Feb Buttons, Pots, and Joysticks | PS01 |
| 2 | 17 Feb No Lecture (Monday Schedule) | 18 Feb Examples with superposition, simplification and node analysis | 19 Feb Thévenin and Norton equivalence | 20 Feb Gamepad | PS02 |
| 3 | 24 Feb Amplifiers and dependent sources | 25 Feb Dependent source examples | 26 Feb Op amps, negative feedback, and non-inverting amplifier | 27 Feb Digital-to-Analog Converter | PS03 |
| 4 | 03 Mar Ideal op-amp abstraction, inverting amplifier, adders, subtracters, instrumentation amp | 04 Mar Op amps including Thévenin/Norton, loading and non idealities | 05 Mar Op-amp design, diodes, multipliers and dividers | 06 Mar TBD | PS04 |
| 5 | 10 Mar Capacitor physics, energy, simple response and homogeneous decay | 11 Mar No Recitation (Quiz at 7:30pm on March 11) | 12 Mar Inductor physics, energy, simple response and homogeneous decay | 13 Mar Light-following Robot | PS05 |
| 6 | 17 Mar RC/RL step response, long- and short-time asymptotes, and ZIR/ZSR | 18 Mar Op-amp integrators and differentiators, first-order dynamic op-amp model and step responses | 19 Mar RC/RL pulse/impulse response, linearity and superposition | 20 Mar Capacitive Touch Sensor | PS06 |
| 7 | Spring Break |
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| 8 | 31 Mar Stability and relaxation oscillator | 01 Apr Initial conditions as sources, first-order op-amp circuits, two-C/L networks | 02 Apr Buck converter and energy processor | 03 Apr TBD | PS08 |
| 9 | 07 Apr LC networks, homogenous response, energy and characteristic impedance | 08 Apr RLC networks, homogeneous response, energy decay and Q | 09 Apr Driven LC networks, step and impulse response | 10 Apr TBD | PS09 |
| 10 | 14 Apr Driven RLC networks, step and impulse response | 15 Apr Review: complex numbers and plane, magnitude and phase | 16 Apr Boost converter | 17 Apr Power Up! | PS10 |
| 11 | 21 Apr Sinusoidal steady state, frequency response | 22 Apr No Recitation (Quiz on Wednesday, April 22 at 7:30pm) | 23 Apr Impedance and admittance, band-pass filter example | 24 Apr Bass Boost | PS11 |
| 12 | 28 Apr Bode plots, B and dB | 29 Apr Examples of impedance and admittance including (cascaded) first-order op amp filters | 30 Apr Resonators, RLC filters, Q and Tesla coil | 01 May Frequency Response | PS12 |
| 13 | 05 May Second-order op-amp filters | 06 May Examples: impedance, admittance, filtering and quality factor | 07 May Buck converter: energy processing, second order LC | 08 May Optical Communication | No PSet |
| 14 | 12 May Wrap-up | 13 May No Recitation | 14 May No Lecture | 15 May No lab | No PSet |
Final Exam: To Be Announced | |||||