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Practice Finals

Here are two finals from previous years ( F09 and F07). The most effective way to use these is to take them as though they were timed tests (3 hours, undisturbed, with 4 pages of notes). Solutions: F09 and F07).

Homework 13

Homework 13 is posted. This homework assignment will not be graded, but solutions will be posted.

Late homeworks

Late homeworks can be turned in until Monday morning of finals week.

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Quiz 3

Results are posed: Quiz 3   Solutions   Statistics

Mid-term Review Notes

notes

Correction to Homework 11

There was a scaling error in the original version of Problem 6: the spikes in X_B were too skinny and the spikes in X_E were too fat. These errors have now been corrected in both the Homework assignment and solutions. (We are very sorry for the confusion.)

Mid-term Examination #3

Wednesday, April 28, from 7:30-9:30pm in 34-101.
Covers Lectures 1-20, Recitations 1-20, and Homeworks 1-11.
Homework 11 will not collected or graded. Solutions will be posted.
If you have a conflict, contact freeman@mit.edu before Friday, April 23, 5pm.
There will be no recitations on the day of the exam.

The exam is closed book. You may use 3 pages of notes (8.5 by 11 inches; front and back).
The exam will be designed as 1-hour exam; you will have two hours to complete it.
No calculators, computers, cell phones, music players, or other aids.

Patriot's Day Vacation

There will be no 6.003 office hours on Monday, April 19, due to the Patriot's Day Vacation. There will be 6.003 office hours on Tuesday, April 20: from 3-10pm in 32-044.

Quiz 2 and Results

Quiz 1   Solutions   Statistics

Review Session

Monday, April 5, 7:30-8:30 in 32-044.  Notes

Mid-term Examination #2

Wednesday, April 7, from 7:30-9:30pm in 34-101.
Covers Lectures 1-15, Recitations 1-15, and Homeworks 1-8.
Homework 8 will not collected or graded. Solutions will be posted.
If you have a conflict, contact freeman@mit.edu before Friday, April 2, 5pm.
There will be no recitations on the day of the exam.

The exam is closed book. You may use 2 pages of notes (8.5 by 11 inches; front and back).
The exam will be designed as 1-hour exam; you will have two hours to complete it.
No calculators, computers, cell phones, music players, or other aids.

Your exam grade will be determined by the correctness of your answers (explanations are not required).
Partial credit will be given for ANSWERS that demonstrate some but not all of the important conceptual issues.

March 16, 2010
Clarification of Problem 6 in HW#6.
Problem 6a in HW#6 has been reworded to (hopefully) reduce confusion about what is being asked.

March 2, 2010
Solutions to Homework #4 have been posted

March 2, 2010
Quiz 1 Review Notes

Review Session

Monday, March 1, 4-5 in 32-044.

Mid-term Examination #1

Wednesday, March 3, from 7:30-9:30pm in 34-101.
Covers Lectures 1-7, Recitations 1-8, and Homeworks 1-4.
Homework 4 will not collected or graded. Solutions will be posted.
If you have a conflict, contact freeman@mit.edu before Friday, Feb. 26, 5pm.
There will be no recitations on the day of the exam.

The exam is closed book. You may use 1 page of notes (8.5 by 11 inches; front and back).
The exam will be designed as 1-hour exam; you will have two hours to complete it.
No calculators, computers, cell phones, music players, or other aids.

Your exam grade will be determined by the correctness of your answers.
Explanations are not required and will not affect your grade.
Partial credit will be given for answers that demonstrate some but not all of the important conceptual issues.

February 23, 2010
Homework #4 is posted. It is longer than normal because it contains problems on new material (1-3) as well as practice problems for Mid-term Examination #1 (4-10). The most effective way to use this homework is to work problems 4-10 as though they were an exam. Do them in a quiet environment and time yourself to assess what you are prepared for and what you should study more. Please feel free to discuss your solutions in office hours. But please remember that understanding our solutions is NOT educationally equivalent to generating your own solutions.

February 23, 2010
Clarification of Homework Grades. Each homework problem will be graded as check (fine), check-plus (very good), check-minus (one or more deficiencies), or zero. Average homework grades on the positive side of check will increase your final grade in 6.003 above the weighted average of your exam grades. Average homework grades on the negative side of check will reduce your final grade in 6.003. Missing homework counts as check-minus-minus-minus.

February 18, 2010
The 6.003 final has been scheduled for Thursday, May 20 from 9am-noon on the Johnson Track.

Febrary 17, 2010
Homework 3 is posted.

February 15, 2010
Supplementary reading for Laplace transform (week 3):
   Oppenheim and Willsky -- sections 9.1-9.10 (Ignore comparisons with Fourier transforms for now. We will cover these starting in week 8)
Posted typographical errors in text (second edition):  Errata

February 12, 2010
Notes from office hours have been posted (under Homework and Handouts).

February 11, 2010
Homework 2 is posted.

Monday, February 16 is a holiday. There will be no office hours on that day.
Tuesday, February 17 will follow the Monday schedule of classes. There will be no lecture that day, but there will be office hours in 32-044 from 3-10pm.

Supplemetary reading for CT systems (weeks 2 and 3):
Oppenheim and Willsky -- sections 1.0-1.5 and 2.4-2.5

February 9, 2010
Homework 1 is due in recitation on February 10.
Please write your KERBEROS USERNAME (upper case only) at the top of your homework.

February 8, 2010
Supplementary reading for DT systems (weeks 1 and 2):
  Difference Equations
  Difference Equations and Modularity
  Block Diagrams and Operators
  Modes

February 3, 2010
Homework Assignment 1 has been posted (under Homework and Handouts).