Hands On Training

Circuits and Electronics 1: Basic Circuit Analysis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

via

edX

Course Features

Duration

5 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Beginner

Effort

7 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Want to learn about circuits and electronics, but unsure where to begin? Wondering how to make computers run faster or your mobile phone battery last longer? This free circuits course taught by edX CEO and MIT Professor Anant Agarwal and colleagues is for you.

This is the first of three online Circuits & Electronics courses offered by Professor Anant Agarwal and colleagues at MIT, and is taken by all MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) majors.

Topics covered include: resistive elements and networks; circuit analysis methods including KVL, KCL and the node method; independent and dependent sources; linearity, superposition, Thevenin & Norton methods; digital abstraction, combinational gates; and MOSFET switches and small signal analysis. Design and lab exercises are also significant components of the course.

Weekly coursework includes interactive video sequences, readings from the textbook, homework, online laboratories, and optional tutorials. The course will also have a final exam.

Course Overview

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

A high school physics background including the basics of electricity and magnetism.

High school mathematical background of working with algebraic equations and basic calculus

What You Will Learn

Construction of simple digital gates using MOSFET transistors

How to design and analyze circuits using the node method, superposition, and the Thevenin method

How to employ lumped circuit models and abstraction to simplify circuit analysis

How to use intuition to solve circuits

Measurement of circuit variables using tools such as virtual oscilloscopes, virtual multimeters, and virtual signal generators

Course Content

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Module 1: From physics to electrical engineering; lumped abstraction, KVL, KCL, intuitive simplification techniques, nodal analysis

Module 2: Linearity, superposition, Thevenin and Norton methods, digital abstraction, digital logic, combinational gates

Module 3: MOSFET switch, MOSFET switch models, nonlinear resistors, nonlinear networks

Module 4: Small signal analysis, small signal circuit model, dependent sources

Course Instructors

Anant Agarwal

CEO and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Anant Agarwal is the founder and CEO of edX. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of C...

Bonnie Lam

Graduate student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her research interests are digital design methodologies for low-power applications, and she is currently stud...

Chris Terman

Senior Lecturer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

A Senior Lecturer in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chris has been an award-winning lecturer for this course on campus since 1995. He has four decades of experienc...

Gerald Sussman

Professor, Electrical Engineering

Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He is a well known educator in the computer science community, perhaps best known as the author of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," whi...