Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring Semester, 2004

MIT 6.002x: Course Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Feb. 2: Registration Day

Feb. 3

Feb. 4: Lecture 1

Course overview; Maxwell's Equations: KVL and KCL
HW1 assigned

Feb. 5: Tutorial

Case 1: Home wiring - Sizing branch circuits

Feb. 6: Recitation

Feb. 9: Lecture 2

Potentials; Nodal Analysis
HW2 assigned

Feb. 10 Feb. 11: Lecture 3

AC/DC, transformers, 3-phase

Feb. 12: Tutorial

Case 1: Home wiring - Faults and Protection

Feb. 13: Recitation

Electrician's tour

Feb. 16: Holiday Feb. 17: Lecture 4
(virtual Monday)

Linearity and Superposition; Thévenin and Norton equivalence
HW3 assigned

Feb. 18: Lecture 5

Op-amps, Feedback amplifiers, and dependent sources

Feb. 19: Tutorial

Case 1: Home wiring - X-10 signalling

Feb. 20: Recitation

Afternoon Lab: X-10 Measurement Lab
Lab will be open 1-6

End of Quiz 1 material

Feb. 23: Lecture 6

Junction Diodes and BJT transistors: models; amplifiers and switches
HW4 assigned

Feb. 24 Feb. 25: Lecture 7

BJT transistors - Bias and incremental analysis and models

Feb. 26: Tutorial

Case 2: Amplifier design - Qualitative analysis

Feb. 27: Recitation

Afternoon Lab: Audio amplifier
Lab will be open 12-5

Mar. 1: Lecture 8

Compound devices, Op-amps
HW5 assigned

Mar. 2 Mar. 3: Lecture 9

Designing transistor circuits

Mar. 4: Tutorial

Case 2: Amplifier design - Incremental analysis

Mar. 5: Recitation

Quiz 1

Mar. 8: Lecture 10

MOS transistors

Mar. 9 Mar. 10: Lecture 11

Digital logic and the digital abstraction

Mar. 11: Tutorial

Case 2: Digital logic gates and standards

Mar. 12: Recitation

Mar. 15: Lecture 12

State and memory; L, C; Energy storage and transfer
HW6 assigned

Mar. 16 Mar. 17: Lecture 13

Initial value problem, first-order systems, step response of RC, relaxation oscillator

Mar. 18: Tutorial

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Mar. 19: Recitation

End of Quiz 2 material

Spring break

Mar. 29: Lecture 14

Second-order systems, initial value problem and step response of RLC
HW7 assigned

Mar. 30 Mar. 31: Lecture 15

Dynamics in State Space; Energy

Apr. 1: Tutorial

Case 3: Power converter I

Apr. 2: Recitation

Afternoon Lab: Start radio

Apr. 5: Lecture 16

Impedance
HW8 assigned

Apr. 6 Apr. 7: Lecture 17

SSS response and frequency response; poles and zeroes

Apr. 8: Tutorial

Case 3: Power converter II

Apr. 9: Recitation

Quiz 2

Apr. 12: Lecture 18

Filters and Q

Apr. 13 Apr. 14: Lecture 19

Radio communication - modulation

Apr. 15: Tutorial

Case 4: Radio I

Apr. 16: Recitation

Apr. 19: Holiday

Apr. 20: Holiday

Apr. 21: Lecture 20

Radio communication - selectivity
HW9 assigned

Apr. 22: Tutorial

Case 4: Radio II

Apr. 23: Recitation

Apr. 26: Lecture 21

Radio communication - oscillators

Apr. 27 Apr. 28: Lecture 22

Feedback and stability: opamp compensation

Apr. 29: Tutorial

Case 4: Radio III

Apr. 30: Recitation

Afternoon Lab: Radio finished

End of Quiz 3 material

May 3: Lecture 23

Control: Modeling a Mechanical System

May 4 May 5: Lecture 24

Control: Design of a controller

May 6: Tutorial

Case 5: Controlled cart I

May 7: Recitation

Quiz 3

Afternoon Lab: Controlled cart

May 10: Lecture 25

Nonlinearity and chaos

May 11 May 12: Lecture 26

Mechanical watches

May 13: Tutorial

Case 5: Controlled cart II

May 14
May 17 May 18:

Final exam, 1:30-4:30

May 19 May 20 May 21