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20.309: Biological Instrumentation and Measurement

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DNA Melting Lab Report is due 10/10

Announcements

October 2, 2007:

October 1, 2007:

  • Friday's recitation (10/5) will be an introduction to the AFM lab and signal processing (sampling and aliasing)
  • The AFM Lab will begin on 10/10

September 25, 2007:

  • There will be no quiz during period of 9/25 - 10/5.
  • The next quiz will cover concepts for lectures and specifics of the AFM labs.

September 25, 2007:

  • The last day the lab will be open to work on DNA melting is Friday October 5th.
  • DNA Melting lab report will be due on Wednesday Oct. 10th (NOTE: DUE DATE CORRECTION).
  • You can work with the same partner on modules 0 and 1. (You must work with a different partner for modules 2, 3, and 4.)

This Week

10/1-10/5
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday
  • PSD and signal-to-noise
  • Convolution
Thursday
  • Convolution Theorem
  • Application to lock-in detection
Friday
  • Introduction to AFM lab module
Optional reading
  • No optional readings this week
Homework
Lab

Next week

10/8-10/12
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday
  • No lecture (holiday)
Thursday
  • Equipartition theorem and thermal fluctuations
Friday
Optional reading
  • No optional readings this week
Homework

Homework Set #2 (due 10/16 at lecture)

Lab
  • DNA Melting lab report due
  • AFM alignment and calibration
  • AFM imaging I

Week 3(9/25-9/28)

Lecture & recitation

Tuesday

  • Fourier analysis (cont'd)

Thu, Sep. 27

  • Signals, noise, Power Spectral Density

Friday

Readings

Homework

Homework Set #1 (due 9/25)


Lab

Week 2 (9/17-9/21)

Lecture & recitation

Tuesday

  • Feedback
  • Black's formula
  • op-amps: "golden rules" and circuit examples

Thursday

  • Fourier series & integrals
  • Fourier transform (continuous & discrete)

Friday

  • Review of ideal elements and circuit modeling
  • Modeling a battery with the ideal elements
  • Real vs. ideal op-amps
  • Ugly op-amp example

Readings

Homework

Homework Set #1 (due 9/25)

Lab

Lab manual for DNA Melting (weeks 2-4, due 10/12)

Week 1 (9/10-9/14)

Readings

RC Circuits

Primary: Art of Electronics (Hayes and Horowitz)

Supplemental: MIT 6.002 notes

This brief introduction to diodes will be helpful for working on the labs this week.

Homework

Homework Set #1 (due 9/21)

Lab

Lab manual for Introduction to Electronics


Week 0 (9/6-9/7)

Readings

DC Circuits

Primary: Art of Electronics (Hayes and Horowitz)

Supplemental: MIT 6.002 notes