Final exam scores and final course grades for the lecture and lab can be found here. Grades are sorted by the middle three digits of your student ID number. In the event of a tie, your college is listed in parentheses.

If you have a grade dispute, it MUST be resolved by 11 pm on Sunday. This is a hard deadline. All unresolved issues at that time will be closed to further discussion or email. (due to the fact that grades are submitted for processing the next day)

Final exam stats: Average = 17.9, Stdev = 7.5.
• If you got above 29, it's an A (5).
• If you got between 24 and 28, it's a B (6).
• If you got between 18 and 23, it's a C (11).
• If you got between 13 and 17, it's a D (16).
• If you got below 12, it's an F (14).

Most of the final exams should be available for pickup outside of my office (BE 189A). Look above the beige lockers. All exams should be there by tomorrow morning. Any exams remaining there after 9 am on Monday morning will be collected and not returned.

Final course grades are currently being calculated. Final exam scores and grades for the lab and lecture will be posted at 3 pm today.

I am waiting for the last group of final exams to be returned to me. Final exam pickup and final grade availability will be postponed until those scores are received. I will post an update as soon as I receive the scores.

On #15 in the answer key, the number crunching is incorrect, Vgs should be 0.27 v. It does not affect any of the written comments on that problem.

Solutions to this morning's final exam are posted below.

Final exams will tentatively be available for pickup outside of my office (BE 189A) starting on Saturday. Final grades should also be posted by then.

All grade disputes must be resolved by 11 pm on Sunday, 12/14. This is a hard deadline. No extensions will be given, since grades are submitted the next morning.

Chapter 10 homework is now available for pickup in the EE 70 lab.

All regrade and rescore requests must be submitted before you take the final exam tomorrow.

In the final exam solutions, the answer to #20 is partially incorrect. Vout = Vds = 3 v (not 0) for inputs of Vgs = 0 and 1.

Homework solutions for Chapter 12 are posted below.

All unclaimed homeworks and exams are now in the EE 70 lab. Graded homework 6's should be in the EE 70 lab by Monday.

Since transformers were not covered in class this quarter, you can skip questions 8-12 on last quarter's final exam.

Even though no homework problems were assigned from Section 12.3, you should still look at some of the examples and exercises there, since we spent most of today looking over that material. You can also do the star'ed homework problems. Solutions are on the CD that came with your book (or via the link to the on-line resources for the textbook).

The following scores are missing from my database. Please see me if your last name is listed below, and you have the graded exam or homework:
• Barbadillo: HW 6
• Chambers: HW 6
• Chan: HW 3
• W. Huang: MT 2 and HW 6
• Kiselyov: HW 6
• Derek Lee: HW 3, HW 4, MT 2, and HW 6
• Ngo: HW 6
• Norouzi: HW 6
• Patzek: all HW and all MT
• Pellin: HW 4
• Rensch: HW 6
• Weber: MT 1, MT 2, HW 3, HW 4, HW 6
• Young: HW 6
• Zhu: MT 2

Homework solutions for Chapter 10 are posted below.

Roberto's final tutoring session will be held this Sunday (December 7th) from 6 pm to 7 pm in the normal location. This will be held in the usual place.

The final homework set (covering Chapter 12) has been posted. Please make sure you work out these problems in preparation for the final exam next week. More problems may be added to this set of homework later this week.

Homework solutions for Chapter 6 are now available.

If you plan on dropping EE 70, make sure you also drop the lab section. Based on new department policy, if you withdraw from EE 70, no credit can be given for the lab. A failing grade will be assigned to the lab section if you do not drop the lab section.

In addition, if you fail the course, you must receive a failing grade in the lab, regardless of what you actually got in the lab. In other words, it is not possible to fail the course and pass the lab. It is possible, however, to pass the lecture and fail the lab. In that case the lab portion can be retaken.

The readers weighed some of the midterm problems more heavily, since they took more time. The second midterm is actually out of 45 points, and points are distributed as follows:
• 1a and 1b. 1 point
• 2. 2 points
• 3a. 1 point
• 3b. 2 points
• 4a. 1 point
• 4b. 3 points
• 5. 2 points
• 6a and 6b. 2 points
• 7a. 1 point
• 7b. 2 points
• 8. 4 points
• 9a. 1 point
• 9b. 3 points
• 10. 5 points
• 11. 3 points
• 12. 4 points
• 13-14. 4 points
• 15. 4 points

For regrade requests on the second midterm, talk to the readers (Darrell: green pen, Tam: red pen). The readers were given full discretion to assign partial credit on this exam. If your midterm is incorrectly scored, you can talk to me.

Midterm 2 stats: Average = 30.0, Stdev = 8.3.
• If you got above 38, it's an A (9).
• If you got between 34 and 37, it's a B (14).
• If you got between 30 and 33, it's a C (11).
• If you got between 20 and 29, it's a D (15).
• If you got below 19, it's an F (9).

Two students decided to leave class with their midterm exams. If this is you, please turn in your midterm for scoring on Tuesday. Otherwise, you will receive a 0 on the 2nd midterm.

The next homework assignment (covering Chapter 10) is now available. It will be due the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

For class on Tuesday, please make sure to print out the slides on semiconductor materials and diodes (located at the bottom under "Course Materials"). We will start going over that material towards the end of Tuesday's lecture.

Homework problems for Chapter 6 are posted below. This homework set will be due on Thursday, November 20th.

Reminder: no class on Tuesday due to Veteran's Day. Class resumes on Thursday, with a lecture on filters.

Midterm 2 solutions are posted below.

Homework 4 stats: Average = 14.8/18, Stdev = 3.5. Lowest C- = 12.5. All homeworks should be now available for pickup in the EE 70 lab.

Someone left their EE 70 textbook in class today up front. If this is you, please email me. - Cliff

Solutions to Homework #5 are now available.

Solutions to Homework #4 are now available. Solutions to Homework #5 will be posted tomorrow.

EE-70 Folk: Could you please write your answers in decimal form? When left in radical form, the graders have to calculate your answer first in order to check it. thx. --darrell

Roberto will hold a review session for the second midterm exam on Monday night (11/3) at 8:30 pm. Same location as always, i.e. the white boards on the first floor of Baskin Engineering.

For the next midterm exam (on Thursday), you will be allowed to use one page of notes. Please use just the front side of an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.

Homework 3 stats: Average = 17.9, Stdev = 3.3. Lowest C- = 15.5 (since the average is above the 70% threshold)

When we first tried working out the series RLC circuit in class today, we ended up with an integral which was somewhat difficult to do. I've worked out all the details and you can take a look at the results here. Obviously, you get the same results as our other approach. I think it's worth looking over because you never know what might happen on an exam.

Midterm 1 stats: Average = 21.9, Stdev = 6.4.
• If you got above 29, it's an A (11).
• If you got between 25 and 28, it's a B (15).
• If you got between 22 and 24, it's a C (7).
• If you got between 16 and 21, it's a D (17).
• If you got below 15, it's an F (12).

If you have a problem with the way your exam was graded or scored, you can contact either the reader (Tam uses red ink, Darrell uses green ink) or myself. Please make sure you look over the solutions first and see how the problem was graded in the first place.

For those of you who did not do well on the midterm, you can use the updated spreadsheet on the web page to figure out what it will take (on future exams) for you to pass the course.

Solutions to Homework 3 are posted below.

Midterm exams will be returned when they have been graded by the readers. This will tentatively be Thursday, but it could extend into next week if the grading takes longer than expected.

Homework problems for the next two weeks (leading up to the second midterm exam) are posted below.

To get an idea of what "passing" is going to be for this class, you can refer to the Excel spreadsheet I have posted below. You can enter your scores for the various assignments in row 2. Row 3 contains the entries for a hypothetical student who gets nothing but the lowest possible C on all the assignments.

This spreadsheet will be updated as the quarter progresses. The final value in row 3 will determine where the lowest C will be at the end of the quarter. No exceptions will be made on this value at the end of the quarter. Additional rows can be added, of course, to get an idea of the lowest possible B and lowest possible A.

You can use this spreadsheet to get a rough idea of where you stand in the class and what it will take (on future assignments and exams) in order to get the grade you want.

Roberto's tutoring session this week has been rescheduled to Monday of next week at 8:30 pm. He sends his apologies for not being there earlier today.

For practical applications of inductors, please refer to the discussions at the top of page 126 and on pages 132-133.

For more details on what "parasitics" are, you can refer to Sections 3.3 and 3.6.

Regrade requests on homeworks or exams (due to incorrect point addition or grading errors) can be brought up with either the readers or myself.

Midterm solutions are posted below. In addition, your next homework assignment (covering Chp. 3 and the first half of Chp. 4) can also be found below.

Homework 1 stats: Average = 18.4/30, Stdev = 6.1. Just like the exams, the average corresponds to the lowest C-, unless it is above the 70% threshold.

Homework 1 will be available for pickup in the EE 70 lab after 5 pm today. Remember, the midterm exam is tomorrow afternoon. Look near the top shelf of the desk. (there should be a message about this on the whiteboard)

If you are interested in a short-term job doing a network survey of SOE resources, you can take a look at this job listing.

Roberto will hold a review session at 8:30 pm today (Monday). It will be held in the usual location, i.e. by the white boards on the 1st floor of Baskin Engineering.

Solutions to HW 2 are posted below.

Pre-requisite quiz statistics: Average = 8.66. Stdev = 3.69
• If you got above 13, it's an A (8).
• If you got between 11 and 12.5, it's a B (14).
• If you got between 8.5 and 10.5, it's a C (15).
• If you got between 5 and 8, it's a D (17).
• If you got below 4.5, it's an F (13).

Homework 1 solutions have been re-uploaded. There should be no problems reading the solutions now.

Solutions to Homework #1 are posted below.

Please note that next week's midterm will be closed book, closed notes, and open calculator. You will not be allowed to store formulas or equations on your calculator.

The grading scale for the pre-req quiz will be posted tomorrow afternoon. For the first midterm exam, I would recommend using a blue book, so that you don't have to worry about stapling your papers together.

Homework problems for Chapters 11 and 14 (covering this week's material) are posted below. You should start working through the problems on your own in preparation for the midterm exam next week. Solutions will be posted later this week.

Reminder: your first homework assignment is due tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/7).

On Tuesday, we will wrap up DC circuit analysis by looking at some more complicated examples (including those involving dependent sources), and move on to a discussion of amplifiers.

For yet another example of circuit analysis (using mesh techniques), you can refer to the mesh analysis example under "Course Materials". Note that if you arrange the equations in standard form, matrix techniques can be used to solve the problem.

Solutions to today's quiz are now available below.

Tutoring sessions will be held on Thursdays from 6 pm to 7 pm in the lounge area on the first floor of Baskin Engineering. These sessions start this week. Roberto will go over any questions you might have on homework and also do sample exam problems from previous quarters.

Lab times and a lab schedule have been posted on the lab sub-page. The TA will be using that page to post announcements and information relevant to the lab portion of the course, so please make sure to check that page for updates.

In order to receive a permission code for EE 70 and/or EE 70L, a pre-requisite waiver form needs to be completed. Please fill out the form before coming to me for a permission code. You can find the form here. Please note that if you have not met a pre-requisite, it will need to be explained on the form.

To get an idea of what you might see on the pre-req quiz on Tuesday, look over the material we will cover in the textbook, paying attention to the math operations and manipulations that are used to solve problems.

Cliff's office hours will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 pm to 2 pm and from 3:45 pm to 4:15 pm in BE 189A. It is best to email me in advance if you plan on stopping by.

A tutor (Roberto Menchaca) has been assigned for EE 70. His email address is rmenchac@ucsc.edu. He will hold his tutoring sessions on Tuesday or Thursday afternoon, after class (a more exact time will be determined next week).

On Tuesday (9/30), we will still meet in the same classroom, i.e. Porter 148. Starting on Thursday (10/2) and for the remainder of the quarter, we will meet in Kresge 327. There are 90 seats in that lecture hall, so there should be no issue with seating after that point. You should still plan on taking the pre-requisites quiz (in possibly cramped surroundings) on Tuesday.

Homework problems for Chapters 1 and 2 have been added.

The syllabus has been updated (just added TA and readers, with their contact information). I will also try to post the first homework assignment later this week.

All links below, with the exception of the first homework assignment, should work correctly now. Please let me know if you find a link which is broken or not working.

The syllabus for Fall Quarter is now available. In addition, a tentative class schedule has been generated.

Homework Assignments and Exam Solutions

Course Materials

Course Resources

Last Updated: 8/22/2003.