Circuits and Electronics
(Fall 2026)
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Announcements
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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| 0 | 08 Sep No Lecture (Registration Day) | 09 Sep Lumped Element Abstraction | 10 Sep Nodal Analysis | 11 Sep Scopes, Breadboards, Sensors | PS00 |
| 1 | 15 Sep Supernodes, Series/Parallel Combinations | 16 Sep Simplification | 17 Sep Current and Voltage Dividers | 18 Sep Buttons, Pots, and Joysticks | PS01 |
| 2 | 22 Sep Linearity, Superposition | 23 Sep Superposition | 24 Sep Equivalent Circuits | 25 Sep Gamepad | PS02 |
| 3 | 29 Sep Dependent Sources | 30 Sep Equivalent Circuit Examples | 01 Oct Equivalent Circuits with Dependent Sources | 02 Oct Digital-to-Analog Converter | PS03 |
| 4 | 06 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 |
| 5 | 13 Oct No Lecture (Indigenous Peoples' Day) | 14 Oct RC/LR Examples | 15 Oct Impulse Response | 16 Oct oscillator2 | PS05 |
| 6 | 20 Oct Operational Amplifiers | 21 Oct Op-Amp Examples | 22 Oct Op-Amp Applications | 23 Oct Motor Control | No PSet |
| 7 | 27 Oct Op-Amp Comparator and Oscillator | 28 Oct No Recitation (Midterm on Wednesday evening) | 29 Oct LC Circuits | 30 Oct Light-following Robot | PS07 |
| 8 | 03 Nov RLC Circuits | 04 Nov Second-order step and impulse response | 05 Nov Sinusoidal Steady State | 06 Nov Bass Boost | PS08 |
| 9 | 10 Nov Impedance Methods | 11 Nov No Recitation (Veterans Day) | 12 Nov Frequency Response | 13 Nov Frequency Response | PS09 |
| 10 | 17 Nov Resonance and Quality Factor | 18 Nov Impedance and Freq Resp Examples | 19 Nov Second-order Circuits and Filtering | 20 Nov Optical Communication | PS10 |
| 11 | 24 Nov Complete Solution | 25 Nov Complete Solution Examples | 26 Nov No Lecture (Thanksgiving) | 27 Nov No Lab (Thanksgiving) | No PSet |
| 12 | 01 Dec Higher-order Systems | 02 Dec Higher-order Systems | 03 Dec Phasors and Transfer Functions | 04 Dec Power Up! | PS12 |
| 13 | 08 Dec Two-port networks, modularity | 09 Dec Wrap-up | 10 Dec Wrap-up | 11 Dec No lab | No PSet |
Final Exam: TBD | |||||