20.309

Announcements

• Due to some posting problem of lectures and homework, homework #6 will be extended to October 28
• Problem Set #5 will be extended to October 24, part (e): 10ms (not 10us)
• DNA melting report and thermal noise lab slides from Friday 10/04 lecture
• DNA data analysis slides from Tuesday 9/30 lecture are now posted here
• Slides for Friday 9/26 lecture are now posted here
• Sign up for your presentation (with this link) by September 23 to avoid being randomly assigned.
• Updates for the DNA melting module
• New lab hours:

Lab Opening Hours

Monday	10:00-7:00
Tuesday	1:00-11:00
Wednesday	10:00-9:00
Thursday	1:00-9:00
Friday	1:00-7:00

Course Documents

Documents This includes documents related to psets, quizes, labs, and lectures

Course packet and readings

Course packet

20.309 course packet (schedule, reading assignments, lab modules, and homework: 3.5 MB pdf file)

Readings

Readings for the first half of the course are available in a single (32 MB pdf) file, located in the readings folder of the course locker. The course locker is available on all lab machines, Project Athena machines, and via AFS.

To access the locker from a Project Athena machine, type: attach 20.309 and then cd ~20.309.

The full AFS path to the readings folder is: \\afs\athena.mit.edu\course\20\20.30\Students\Readings.

You can also download the file directly at this link. The login and password will be provided in lecture.

(Due to copyright restrictions, this file cannot be posted on Openwetware.)

This Week

10/6-10/10
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday	Mechanical Systems
Thursday	Ultimate limits of force and position detection
Friday	Student Presentations
Optional reading
Homework
Homework #4 due on Oct 14
Lab
Module 2: Thermal noise measurement

Week 4

9/29-10/3
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday	Convolution
Thursday	Application of Convolution Theorem
Friday	Lab 1 Requirements and Intro to Lab 2
Optional reading
Homework
Homework #4 due on Oct 7 SOLUTIONS
Lab
Module 1: DNA Melting Lab FINAL WEEK

Week 3

9/15-9/20
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday	Intro to Fourier Analysis Quiz #2 Solutions
Thursday	Power Spectral Density, Noise and Bandwidth (blackboard)
Friday	Sampling and Discrete Analysis
Optional reading
Homework
Homework #3 due on Sept 30 SOLUTIONS
Lab
Module 1: DNA Melting Lab

Week 2

9/15-9/20
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday	Op-amps and negative feedback (blackboard) Quiz #1 Solutions
Thursday	Op-amp applications
Friday	The reality of op-amps
Optional reading
Homework
Homework #2 due on Sept 23 SOLUTIONS
Lab
Module 1: DNA Melting Lab

Week 1

9/8-9/12
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday	RC Circuits
Thursday	Filters
Friday	Thermodynamics of DNA melting
Optional reading
Introduction to diodes
Homework
Homework #1 (also available in the course PDF file) SOLUTIONS
Lab
Module 0: Introduction to Electronics

Week 0

9/4-9/5
Lecture & Recitation
Tuesday	No lecture
Thursday	Course overview
Friday	Voltage dividers and electrical impedance
Optional reading
No optional readings this week
Homework
None assigned
Lab
Lab opens 9/8