Final exams will be available for pickup tomorrow night (Sunday). If you need to see your final sooner, contact the reader.

Slight adjustments (i.e. removal of the + or - on grades, changing of the grade option to a P or S) may occur on your grade before grades are submitted, depending on what your grading option is and how your college handles +/- on grades.

Final exam scores, final course grades, and final lab grades can be found here. Grades are sorted by the last four digits of your Social Security number. If you cannot find your number, use the second letter of your first name and second letter of your last name to form a two letter code. (those scores and grades can be found at the bottom)

All grade disputes MUST be completed by 11:59 pm on Sunday. No extensions will be given, even if the dispute is on-going.

Final exam can be picked up outside of my office (BE 189A). Look for a stack of papers on the manila lockers outside. All materials will be removed on Monday.

If you have a regrade request on the final exam, you can go through either the reader or myself. Please do not request a regrade if it will not affect your final grade for the course. (use the Excel spreadsheet to see if the points you gain will make a difference or not)

Final exam stats: Average = 21.75/34, Stdev = 4.39
• If you got above 26, it's an A (4)
• If you got between 24 and 25.5, it's a B (5)
• If you got between 22 and 23.5, it's a C (7)
• If you got between 18 and 21, it's a D (7)
• If you got below 17, it's an F (3)

Final exam scores and final course/lab grades will be posted here in about 2 hours.

Final exam solutions are now available below.

On the Fall 2003 final exam, there should be a 0.3 v battery instead of a short circuit on the last circuit analyzed in #8-#9. This changes Vd1 from -10 v to -10.3 v and Id2 from 5 mA to 4.7 mA, but does not change the conclusions drawn.

Reminder: final exam is tonight from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm in Oakes 102. The TA's will proctor the final exam, due to a scheduling conflict that I have.

Homework 6 stats: Average 13.0/18, Stdev = 2.7. Straight percentages are used for grade assignments the average is above the 70th percentile.

The target completion date for grading of final exams is Saturday. I will post a message here when the exams are available for pickup.

Final grades for the course and the lab will be available for viewing by Saturday night. You will have 24 hours to review and dispute your final grade. All grade disputes need to be resolved by 11:59 pm on Sunday night. No extensions are granted under any circumstances. (grades are submitted for processing the next day)

Correction on the homework assignments. Homework assignments for Chapter 10 are located above the manila lockers outside of my office (BE 189 A). They are NOT in the EE 70 lab.

Homework assignments for Chapter 10 should be available for pickup in the EE 70 lab. If you have problems getting into the lab, check with facilities (BE 57). In any case, you should be able go off of the solutions posted on the webpage (and hopefully a photocopy of your homework solutions, assuming you made copies of it before turning them in).

On the Fall 2003 final exam, the answer to #15 should be 0.273 v, not 0.003 v. All other answers for this particular circuit should be correct. If you see any other errors or mistakes, please let me know.

The Chapter 12 homework solutions should be readable now.

Homework solutions for Chapter 12 are now available. Sorry for the delay.

Homework solutions for Chapter 10 are now available. Chapter 12 solutions will be posted tomorrow.

Homework 5 stats: Average = 16.2/22, Stdev = 3.2. Since this is above the 70th percentile, straight percentages are used to assign grades for this assignment.

Since the last two homework problems cover material I haven't talked about in lecture yet, homework problems for Chapter 10 will be due next Tuesday instead of on Thursday. The due date has been changed below.

Homework solutions for Chapter 6 problems are now available.

Due to low turnout to tutoring sessions, no further tutoring sessions will be offered this quarter. You are, however, welcome to contact Tam via email if you have any questions.

Midterm 2 stats: Average = 22.3, Stdev = 5.1. Since the average is above the 70th percentile, straight percentages are used to determine grades.
• If you got above 27, it's an A. (4)
• If you got between 24 and 26.5, it's a B. (10)
• If you got between 21 and 23.5, it's a C. (5)
• If you got between 18 and 20.5, it's a D. (6)
• If you got below 17.5, it's an F. (6)

Exams will be returned at the beginning of class on Thursday.

Solutions to the second midterm exam are now available.

On HW 3, each problem was worth 2 points each.

Graded homework assignments (covering Chap. 3, 4, and 14) should be available for pickup in the EE 70 lab after 8 pm tonight.

Homework problems covering the remaining topics this quarter have been posted. Please note the due dates for each assignment.

Solutions to the homework problems for Chapter 5 and Appendix A are now available.

I have found a couple of pdf-typo errors in the Midterm 2 exam from Fall 2003. The file has been updated. If you see any errors in other files (ex. missing greek symbols, weird characters), please let me know.

Homework solutions for Chapters 3 and 4 are posted below. Solutions for the next homework assignment (Chapter 5) will be released on Friday.

Midterm 1 stats: Average = 16.4/28, Stdev = 4.4. Since this is below the 70th percentile, the average is the lowest C.
• If you got above 21, it's an A. (4)
• If you got between 18.5 and 20.5, it's a B. (7)
• If you got between 16 and 18, it's a C. (9)
• If you got between 12 and 15, it's a D. (5)
• If you got below 11.5, it's an F. (7)

On your next midterm exam, please make sure your work is done clearly and legibly. A number of midterm exams were done in a very sloppy manner. Don't expect to get a lot of partial credit if the work shown is sloppy.

A more thorough breakdown of the second order example we did in class today can be found here. The problem is reworked without assuming the solution takes a "cos + sin" form (you eventually get to that point anyhow, since 2Ai = the B term I used in class). In addition, integration by parts is used to find Vc from Ic. Please look through the work and email me any questions you may have.

Midterm 1 solutions are now posted below. Graded exams will tentatively be available after class on Tuesday, May 4th (1.5 weeks).

All regrade requests (whether homeworks or exams) go through the reader first. If your issue is incorrect addition of points, you can see me directly. Otherwise, try to work out your grading issue with the reader first before coming to see me about it.

The next two sets of homework problems (leading up to the second midterm exam) are now available.

Graded HW 1's are now available for pickup in the EE 70 lab. Homework is out of a total of 34 points, distributed as follows:
• 1.15 - 3
• 1.24 - 2
• 1.27 - 2
• 1.40 - 3
• 1.43 - 2
• 1.46 - 2
• 2.17 - 3
• 2.37 - 3
• 2.39 - 3
• 2.46 - 3
• 2.52 - 4
• 2.56 - 4

Solutions to the second homework assignment (covering Chapters 11 and 14) are now available below.

On Thursday, there should be time to do some review and work out any problems or questions you might have. So please come with questions or problems. Otherwise, I will continue lecturing and cover material you will need for after the midterm exam.

Some additional notes on finding Thevenin resistances, and a correct solution of the last circuit we did in class today can be found here.

Since the first midterm exam is being postponed, Tam's review session for the first midterm will be held during the normal tutoring session next week, i.e. Thursday, April 15th from 6 pm to 7 pm.

The class schedule timeline has been revised to reflect the new date of the first midterm exam. The list and order of topics has not changed.

Pre-req quiz stats: Average = 5.97, Stdev = 2.3
• If you got above a 9, it's an A (4)
• If you got between 7.5 and 8.5, it's a B (4)
• If you got between 6 and 7, it's a C (8)
• If you got between 4 and 5, it's a D (10)
• If you got below 3, it's an F (4)

The first midterm exam will be postponed by one class session, i.e. the first midterm will now be on Tuesday, April 20th.

In the last example I did in class, the 12 volt dc source needs to be zero'ed out. By doing so, you will get a voltage of 1/3 v, which is the Thevenin resistance. In other words, you need to zero out all independent sources if you decide to use this technique to find Rt. I may generate some more comments about this later today in an MS Word document.

Homework 1 solutions are now available. Solutions will be posted in MS Word format. If you have a problem with this, let me know.

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, under "Course Materials". You can enter your scores for the various assignments in row 2. Rows 3-7 contains the entries for a hypothetical student who gets nothing but the lowest possible A, B, C, or D on all the assignments.

This spreadsheet will be updated as the quarter progresses. The final value in row 6 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.

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

If you added late into this class (on or after 3/24), please bring proof of enrollment to class this week. (a printout of your current class schedule should be fine) If you are not enrolled in the course, I do not want you to use the reader resources to have papers and exams graded. (you can do this on your own) Students who are auditing this course are welcome to stay, assuming that there are enough seats available for everyone.

Reminder: labs and tutoring sessions start up this week.

Please note that the last two problems of the quiz were only given 1 point each. Therefore, the pre-req quiz is out of 12 points, not 14.

Quiz solutions are now available below.

Tutoring sessions for EE 70 start up next week. A review session for the first midterm will also be held on Thursday, 4/15 from 6 to 7 pm.

Tutoring sessions will be held by Tam Nguyen on Thursdays from 6 pm to 7 pm at the Baskin Engineering whiteboards on the 1st floor (over by Undergraduate Advising). Based on the scheduling forms, it looks like everyone can make this time. Tam will go over sample exam problems based on the material that is covered in class.

Please bring additional paper (to write your answers on) for the quiz tomorrow. There is not enough space on the exam to write your answers or show your work. Also, calculators will not be needed.

Office hours: In addition to sticking around after lecture, you can try to catch me for office hours before class. I will typically try to arrive on campus before 9:40 am. Look for me either in the classroom, or over at the HavaJava Cafe. I do not recommend trying my on-campus office (BE 189A) since I will only rarely be going to Baskin Engineering. (since it is so far from the classroom)

Additional tutoring for this class is available through MEP and Undergraduate Advising. The goal is to have regular individual or small group sessions during the quarter. If you are interested in this option, you can contact Peggy Church (pchurch@soe.ucsc.edu, 459-1589, BE 177). The assigned tutor at is Jorge Zuniga (jlzuniga@ucsc.edu).

The quiz on Thursday will only be the first 45 minutes of class. We will resume our discussion of circuit analysis after the quiz.

The first homework assignment is now available.

The syllabus for Spring Quarter is now available. All links from this page, including the lab materials, should be up at this time.

Homework Assignments and Exam Solutions

Course Materials

Practice Exam Materials

Course Resources

Last Updated: 3/17/2004.