Circuits and Electronics
(Spring 2026)
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Welcome to 6.200!
We will update this page with more information as we
get closer to the start of the semester. In the meantime, please be aware of
the following:
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First Class Meeting
Our first class meeting will be on the second day of classes (Tuesday, February 3rd) in room 2-190. Note, we will do our own section assignments in 6.200 (more details to come!), for both lab and rectiation. For the first week of recitations, please come to the section you have registered for.
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Recitation/Lab Assignments
Please fill out this form by Tuesday, February 3rd at 5pm for recitation and lab section assignment. By Wednesday morning you will be assigned to recitation and lab section, please plan to attend the corresponding sections on Wednesday (recitation) and Thursday/Friday (lab).
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 | 03 Feb Lumped elements, KVL, KCL slides.pdf | 04 Feb Nodes, loops, KVL, KCL, signs, power | 05 Feb Labels, brute-force analysis, resistor combinations | 06 Feb Scopes, Breadboards, Sensors | PS00 |
| 1 | 10 Feb Circuit simplification, node analysis | 11 Feb Node analysis compared to brute-force analysis | 12 Feb Linearity and superposition | 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 | |||||