20.309

Announcements

• For lab demo tomorrow, we will meet on the 2nd floor of NE47 (500 Technology Square) across the street from the McGovern Center (Brain and Cog building). We will divide the class into two groups. People with last names from A-L, please come at 12:00 and people with last names from M-Z please come at 12:30.
• Lecture notes for 3D Microscopy II: Multiphoton Microscopy posted.
• Lecture notes for 3D Microscopy I: Confocal Microscopy posted.
• Thank you for reminding me that I have forgotten to give you the images to process for the Fourier problem in HW8. They are now posted in MATLAB file format. I have also included the Perlman paper that I mentioned in the homework and hopefully it makes the last problem clearer. Good luck.
• Lecture note for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy II posted.
• Lecture note for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy I posted.
• Homework 8 posted, due right before Thanksgiving.

Announcement Archives

• 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

Deadlines Update

• Student presentations Tuesday 11/25
• PSET #8 DUE Monday, 12/1 at 12:00 PM. No exceptions. (note change ONCE again)
• Thanksgiving holiday 11/27-28
• 12/9 will be the last day to work in the lab on your final project
• Final project poster will be due at 4:59 PM on 12/10
• Very informal poster session and class party at 5:00 PM on 12/10

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 #5 due on Oct 24 at noon
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