Department of EECS EE100/42-43 Fall 2008 Rev. 2 1GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION Instructor: Dr. Leon O. Chua Document composed by course coordinator (Bharathwaj “Bart Simpson” Muthuswamy) Email corrections, suggestions etc. to [email protected] Table of Contents 1. General Course Introduction………………………………………………………2 2. Course Materials.....….……………………………………………………………...2 3. Enrollment – Class, Laboratory and Discussion Sections..………………………2 4. Homework Information …………………………………………………………….3 5. Lab Information……………………………………………………………………..3 6. Exam information and grade breakdown………………………………………….4 7. Grade corrections…………………………………………………………………….4 8. Resources……………………………………………………………………………...4 9. Policy on Cheating……………………………………………………………………5 10. FAQs………………………………………………………………………………….6Department of EECS EE100/42-43 Fall 2008 Rev. 2 2 1. General Course Introduction Welcome to EE100 (or EECS 100 or EECS 42/43) for Fall 2008! This document contains very important information pertaining to course logistics. Please read this document thoroughly! Note: The current online version of these course notes has the final say on any course policy: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee100/handouts Email corrections in this document to [email protected] Ever since Summer 05 we are offering both EE100 and EE42/43 as one class. This is because of an overlap in the conceptual material (refer to the Online Course Catalog for a detailed description of EE100, EE42 and EE43). Please note that EE100 has both the lab and theory in one course. EE42 is the course, EE43 is the lab. We will refer to the course as ``EE100'' from now on. The course website is: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee100 Please check the website at least once a day. There is a bspace site: http://bspace.berkeley.edu You should already be able to access the site, become familiar with it. Please check the bspace site at least once a day. 2. Course Materials • Book: James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, "Electric Circuits", 8th Ed. (buy the edition without the PSPICE supplement). Do not use any other edition1. • Online supplementary lecture notes (to be posted as needed) from: o L. Chua, “Introduction to Nonlinear Network Theory” o L.O. Chua, C. A. Desoer, “Linear and Nonlinear Circuits” • Other handouts: You can find these on the EE100 homepage: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee100 under handouts. • Prelabs, lab guides and lab reports: You can find these on the EE100 homepage under Labs. 3. Enrollment – Class, Laboratory and Discussion Sections • Lecture attendance is compulsory. If you are waitlisted for the lecture, please wait till the end of the second week of class to see you if get in. We will try and let everyone into the class. If you don't get in by the end of the second week, sorry, we cannot make any guarantee that you will get in. You can wait it out to see if students drop, but you are taking a risk. • Lab section attendance is compulsory, you can switch if you have unavoidable circumstances (ex: class conflict because of graduation is ok, World of Warcraft raid is not). Please email the lab head TA a petition describing in detail why you want to switch before lab sessions start. We will make a decision on a case-by-case basis. Please include in your petition the 1 Note: If you already have an older edition of the book, use it at your own risk! Although the concepts covered may be pretty similar, the end-of-chapter problems will be different. Therefore on homework you will have to get the problems from the 8th edition.Department of EECS EE100/42-43 Fall 2008 Rev. 2 3lab section that you are currently enrolled in and the section you want to attend (please include section # and day/time). Once you are informed of the decision, you can go to your new section. You don’t have to make the lab section switch on Telebears. Make sure you are in groups of two. If there are an odd number of students, the TA may form group(s) of three. Please refrain from asking HW questions in lab, this is what the discussion sections and office hours are for. • Discussion sections are optional, but we highly encourage attending them since you may need all the help you can get. 4. Homework Information • For detailed homework assignments and other information, please check the EE100 homepage (under Homework). • Homework refers to end of the chapter problems and other supplementary problems posted on the homework website. Homework should be readable by the reader(s). If they are not, we will not grade them. • Homework is due on Friday @ 2:00 PM (PST, not Berkeley time) in the homework boxes (labeled EECS 100) in the Cory lounge (240 Cory). No late homework will be accepted, do not cry or complain! • Graded homework will be returned during the lab section. Be sure to write your name and lab section number in each homework (on the front page, clearly visible). If you do not or enter incorrect information, you will loose 10 points/HW. • Homework solutions will be posted on bspace. 5. Lab Information • For detailed lab assignments (prelabs, guides, reports and project) and lab information, please check the EE100 homepage (under Lab). • The lab is in 140 Cory Hall. A TA must be present in 140 for you to access the lab. • If you cannot make your scheduled lab session because of a valid reason (sickness, family emergency, etc), it is imperative that you let your TA know before the lab starts. You can make up your missed lab only within 2 weeks of your scheduled lab session date. You can come in to other lab sessions during the week to make up your missed lab. If you are making-up a lab, please let the TA of that lab know that you will be coming to make up a lab before you come to the lab. • Before coming to the lab, please print and read the lab experiment. Prelab will be collected 10 minutes after the scheduled lab start time, no late submission will
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