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Lecturer
Prof. Anant Agarwal
The subject aims to provide the student with:
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An understanding of basic EE abstractions on which analysis and design of electrical and electronic circuits and systems are based, including lumped circuit, digital and operational amplifier abstractions.
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The capability to use abstractions to analyze and design simple electronic circuits.
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The ability to formulate and solve the differential equations describing time behavior of circuits containing energy storage elements.
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An understanding of how complex devices such as semiconductor diodes and field-effect transistors are modeled and how the models are used in the design and analysis of useful circuits.
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The capability to design and construct circuits, take measurements of circuit behavior and performance, compare with predicted circuit models and explain discrepancies.
One-hour lectures will be held twice a week.
Weekly tutorials will be held in TA offices within the lab, during those weeks in which there is no lab in progress. Tutorials hours will be assigned and posted on the 6.002 web site. Tutorials canceled due to holidays will be rescheduled by your TA.
Agarwal, Anant and Jeffrey H. Lang. Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Elsevier, July 2005. ISBN: 1558607358.
Homework will be issued in lectures and collected a week later in recitation. Corrected homework with solutions will be returned in tutorials the week after it is collected. You are welcome and encouraged to discuss the homework among your colleagues. However, the final formulation and write up of your homework answers must be your own. Submitting homework copied from someone else is a breach of ethics, and will be handled by the Committee on Discipline. More importantly, although homeworks count for only 5 percent of the grade, they are critical to learning the material and to doing well on the quizzes and final exam. Homework questions may also appear in the tests, and homework performance will be taken into account during grade assignment for cases that are on letter-grade boundaries.
Late homework will not be accepted for grading. However, total homework grades will be based on the best nine out of eleven individual homework grades. Thus, with one exception, two homework assignments may be missed without a grading penalty. The one exception is Homework #11, which is mandatory. Homework #11 will be a two-week design assignment that will also serve as the pre-lab exercises for Lab #4.
Labs will be conducted during weeks shown in the "At a Glance" handout. TAs will be available for help and lab check-off during those weeks in which a lab is in progress. Individual lab hours will be assigned and posted on the 6.002 web site. Written lab work for labs 1 through 3, which is to be completed in a lab notebook, will be due in recitation on the day following the week of the lab. No written work will be due for the last lab. You are welcome and encouraged to discuss the labs among your colleagues. You are also welcome to team up in pairs to execute a lab. However, the write up of your lab must be done on your own. Skipping the lab and submitting work copied from someone else is a serious breach of ethics, and will be handled by the Committee on Discipline.
You must obtain a thin square-ruled hard cover notebook for recording measurements, observations and graphs of data taken during the in-lab exercises. Written pre-lab and post-lab exercises are also to be completed in your lab notebook. Your lab notebook must be turned in for grading during recitation following the lab week; it will be returned before the next lab.
Two closed-book evening quizzes will be given on the days indicated in the "At a Glance" handout. The quizzes will have a two-hour duration. The exact date and location for the final will be announced later. You may bring one two-sided sheet of notes to each quiz. There will be no lecture or recitation on the day of the quiz. Obviously, the quizzes exam must be worked on your own, and any infractions will be handled by the Committee on Discipline.