Circuits and Electronics
(Fall 2025)
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Announcements
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Veterans Day Weekend: This coming weekend is a long weekend, which will affect our schedule in the following ways:
- The week 9 problem set comes due on Tuesday (11 Nov) at 10pm instead of the normal Monday 10pm deadline.
- We will not hold open lab hours on Sunday (9 Nov), but we will hold our normal open lab hours on Monday evening (10 Nov) and we will have additional open lab hours on Tuesday evening (11 Nov), 7-10pm.
- Adam's Monday morning office hours are cancelled this week.
- We will not have a lecture on Tuesday (11 Nov), but our schedule the rest of the week will be as normal.
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Midterm Scores and Statistics: Midterm Scores and Statistics are now available.
- Midterm Review Materials remain 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 | 05 Nov Filtering slides.pdf | 06 Nov LC Circuits | 07 Nov Frequency Response | PS09 |
| 10 | 11 Nov No Lecture (Veterans Day) | 12 Nov LC and RLC Circuits | 13 Nov RLC in Time; Quality Factor | 14 Nov Power to the People | PS10 |
| 11 | 18 Nov RLC Circuits: Frequency Domain | 19 Nov RLC in Frequency | 20 Nov RLC in Frequency: Q | 21 Nov Buck Converter | PS11 |
| 12 | 25 Nov RLC Circuits: Complete Solution | 26 Nov No Recitation | 27 Nov No Lecture (Thanksgiving) | 28 Nov No Lab (Thanksgiving) | PS12 |
| 13 | 02 Dec Transfer Functions | 03 Dec Transfer Functions | 04 Dec Transfer Functions | 05 Dec Optical Communication | PS13 |
| 14 | 09 Dec Wrap-up | 10 Dec TBD | 11 Dec No Lecture (No Classes) | 12 Dec No lab | No PSet |
Final Exam: Tuesday, 16 Dec, 9am-12noon, 50-340 (Walker Gym) | |||||