Hands On Training

Circuits and Electronics 3: Applications

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

via

edX

Course Features

Duration

7 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Intermediate

Effort

10 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Want to learn how your radio works? Wondering how to implement filters using resistors, inductors, and capacitors? Wondering what are some other applications of RLC and CMOS circuits? This free circuits course, taught by edX CEO and MIT Professor Anant Agarwal and MIT colleagues, is for you.

The third and final online Circuits and Electronics courses is taken by all MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) majors.

Topics covered include: dynamics of capacitor, inductor and resistor networks; design in the time and frequency domains; op-amps, and analog and digital circuits and applications. 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.

This is a self-paced course, so there are no weekly deadlines. However, all assignments are due when the course ends.

Course Overview

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

You should also have taken Circuits and Electronics 1 and Circuits and Electronics 2, or have an equivalent background in basic circuit analysis and first order circuits.

You should have a mathematical background of working with calculus and basic differential equations, and a high school physics background in electricity and magnetism

What You Will Learn

Circuits applications using op-amps

How to compare the measurements with the behavior predicted by mathematical models and explain the discrepancies

How to construct and analyze filters using capacitors and inductors

How to use intuition to describe the approximate time and frequency behavior of second-order circuits containing energy storage elements (capacitors and inductors)

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

The relationship between the mathematical representation of first-order circuit behavior and corresponding real-life effects

Course Content

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Module 1: Second-order circuits, damping in second-order systems

Module 2: Sinusoidal steady state analysis, frequency response, frequency response plots, impedance methods

Module 3: Filters, quality factor, time and frequency domain responses

Module 4: Op-amp abstraction, negative feedback, Op-amp amplifiers, Op-amp filters and other circuits

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...