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NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 47 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear Students

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!
NPTEL offers 47 new open online courses (10 hr course, 20hr course and 40hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering&Science, Management and Humanities.

•    Duration of courses: 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks
•    Online course start date: Jan 18, 2016
•    Last date for enrollment: Jan 25, 2016
•    Certification exam dates: Mar 20, 27 (for 10 and 20hr courses) and Apr 24, May 1(for 40 hr courses)

Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

This site uses your Google account for authentication. You can select the course and click the join button to enroll.

After enrollment you will be able to see the course contents as and when they are made available by the course instructors.

List of 10 hr courses:

1.Probability and Stochastics for finance - Mathamatics/management
2.Introduction to Reciprocal Space - Materials Science
3.Introduction to Research - Multidisciplinary

List of 20 hr courses:

1.Microwave Integrated Circuits - Electronics&Communication
2.Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory - Management
3.Estimation for Wireless Communications –MIMO/ OFDM Cellular and Sensor Networks - Electronics&Communication
4.Airplane Performance- Aerospace
5.Basics of NVH and Its Measurement - Mechanical
6.Marketing I - Management
7.Manufacturing Process Technology -Part I - Mechanical
8.MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation - Chemical
9.Technical English for Engineers - Humanities
10.Introduction to boundary layers - Mechanical
11.Language and Mind - Humanities
12.Chemistry - II - Chemistry
13.Fundamentals of electronic materials and devices - Materials Science
14.Application of Spectroscopic Methods in Molecular Structure Determination - Chemistry
15.Analysis and Modeling of Welding - Materials Science
16.Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy - Materials Science
17.Information Security- II - Computer science
18.Project Planning & Control - Civil
19.Biostatistics and Design of experiments - Biotech
20.Principles of Human Resource Management - Management
21.Health research fundamentals - Humanities
22.Engineering Graphics - Civil
23.2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Computer science
24.2016: An introduction to Haskell Programming    - Computer science
25.2016: Programming, Data structures and Algorithm - Computer science

List of 40 hr courses:

1.Stability and control of aircraft - Aerospace
2.Basics of Finite Element Analysis - Mechanical
3.Electromagnetic theory - Electrical
4.Geology and Soil Mechanics - Civil
5.Phase Diagrams in Materials Science and Engineering - Materials Science
6.Risk and Reliability of offshore structures - Ocean
7.HSE for offshore and petroleum engineers - Ocean
8.Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics
9.Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics - Mechanical
10.Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Computer science
11.Introduction to Machine Learning - Computer science
12.Computational Fluid Dynamics - Chemical
13.Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer - Mechanical
14.Biochemistry - Chemistry
15.Probability and Statistics - Mathematics
16.Industrial Automation and Control - Electrical
17.Probability Methods in Civil Engineering - Civil
18.Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - Mathematics
19.Vibration of structures - Mechanical

Happy Learning!!!!

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Feedback for Analog Circuits

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course" Feedback for Analog Circuits " which was conducted by Prof.Nagendra Krishnapura  of IIT Madras between July1 - August 31 2015.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.

It would be great to have a video feedback from you too - where you can talk about your experience with our course , the portal and how the course helped you (maybe for GATE preparation, campus interviews or in your job, etc) . We request you to give your name, if you are a student or a working professional and other details (such as college name or work place, if you would want to), the course you took and your feedback about the same. You can record this using your mobile phone or your laptop/desktop using a webcam or with the help of a friend and upload the same on YouTube and put the link below. We would go through them and select the best videos for upload on our portal as testimonials and in other videos we create about NPTEL for publicity

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rXWXIMxqBpUfgygWlRIw7Hte5OU1yyHb2qpEEYB_xBE

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Analog Circuits: 7th assignment solutions online

The solutions to 7th assignment is posted online. It shows up as a lesson in the corresponding unit.

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NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 11 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear All,

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Analog Circuits: Exam pattern; Things to watch out for

The exam will have questions of the type familiar to you from the assignments. You will be given a circuit and asked questions about the circuit. There maybe more than one question about the same circuit. These will appear as "comprehensive" type in the exam where a circuit diagram and common data will be given and questions asked about that. 

You will need a calculator. You need to enter the answer to one decimal accuracy in most cases. 

In the first 6 assignments, and in the lessons, I used a common value of mu_n*Cox, W/L, and VT for convenience. But, when you have multiple transistors, there is no reason for this to be true. You can already see in the 7th assignment that transistors have different parameters. In the exam, don't blindly substitute the values you remember. For each problem, look at the parameters given for each transistor and use them appropriately.

A common confusion/source of error seems to be to assume that the gate voltage is itself the gate-source voltage. This is true if the source is grounded, but that is certainly not the case in all the problems. So, do look at what the source voltage is. 

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Analog Circuits: Exam syllabus; Remaining lessons and assignments

The exam will be based on the lectures for the first seven weeks which are already posted. The remaining lessons and assignments will be posted in the coming weeks. 

The eighth assignment score will count towards the certification score(Best 5 of 8 will be taken).

All of the syllabus originally announced for the first 8 weeks, i.e. up to the pMOS transistor, have already been covered. 

Nagendra

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Hall Ticket for Sep 6th/ 13th NPTEL Online Certification exam for registered candidates

Dear Candidate:

If you have successfully registered for the September 6th/ 13th NPTEL Online Certification exam, your hall ticket is available at: 
https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/login.html

Please login with your application number and password that has been sent to you as part of the successful registration email. In the tab - "Hall Ticket" / "Hall ticket for offline exam" you will get your hall ticket. If you are writing 2 course exams, there would be 2 hall tickets available for you to carry for your respective exams. Under the "Hall ticket" tab - there would be a link as click "here", on clicking which your hall ticket will get displayed / downloaded into your system.The hall ticket will have the details of your exam venue. 

Please download, print your hall ticket and carry it with you to the exam center. NPTEL wishes you the very best for the exam.

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

nptel@iitm.ac.in
Contact: 91-44-22575905 / 08

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Analog Circuits: Seventh week's assignment

Hello all,

The assignment for week 7 have been released. The deadline for this assignment alone will be Friday(Sep. 4th). Please use the discussion forum for any doubts, queries, and discussions.

Nagendra

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Analog Circuits: Seventh week's lectures

Hello all,

Please use the discussion forum for any doubts, queries, and discussions. 

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Registration deadline extended till August 19th Midnight!

Dear candidate:

Hope you have registered for the NPTEL Online Certification exams on Sep 6th/ 13th 2015! 
If not, here is your last opportunity to register for the same. The deadline for registration has been extended till August 19th 2015 Midnight!

Registration link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/application.html 

Best wishes for your NPTEL Online certification exam.

Warm regards,
NPTEL Team

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Analog Circuits: Sixth assignment-questions 3,4,5,6,7

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Analog Circuits: Clarifications on certification

Calculation of final score:

The final score will be calculated as follows. 

Assignment score: All assignments carry equal weight(10 marks each). The total of best 5 of 8 assignments will be taken.

Exam score will be scaled to 50 and added to the total assignment score, also out of 50, to get the final score for the course, out of 100.

Assignment score for those who enrol late or submit fewer than 5 assignments:

If you enrol after the 4th week or for some other reason submit fewer than 5 assignments, those assignments will be counted and the remaining set to zero. i.e. if you submit only three assignments, your assignment total will be the total of those three plus zeros for two more. Total score will be calculated as above. If you did not submit any assignments at all, your assignment score will be zero and the total score will be calculated with that assignment score. 

Who will be given a certificate:

All those who enrol and write the exam will get a certificate. Depending on the total score the certificate will reflect just participation or an appropriate higher level of achievement. 

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REMINDER: LAST 5 DAYS LEFT FOR REGISTERING FOR THE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION - REGISTER TODAY!

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Analog Circuits: Re-grading of assignments

As I had mentioned in a previous email, the platform is being modified to facilitate convenient re-grading of assignments. All your assignments will be re-graded with more tolerance on the last decimal point etc. In particular, the problem in the first assignment for which the exact answer was 6.25 will be re-graded accepting all answers between 6.2 and 6.3.

So if you see a score that seems to be in error, don't worry about it for now. 

Nagendra

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Gentle Reminder: Regarding Registration form for Sep 6th /13th certification exam

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Analog Circuits: Accessing course content

There are a number of questions on accessing the course content on the course forum. You can find short videos(silent) at the links below which will tell you how to access them. The video shows the example for "Basic Electrical Circuits", but the same thing applies for "Analog Circuits" with its URL.

Course URL: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc15_ee02/

Video(silent) showing how to access course content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyj9xGuwtFM

OR

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1581UKHpla4WFZqMW01eDZPOHc

Nagendra

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Registration form for Sep 6th /13th certification exam

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"Analog Circuits": On your marks, get set, go!

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Lecture and assignment schedule

Week	Weekly lectures and assignments on the web (on or before)	Assignment due (1155pm on that date)
1	6-Jul-2015	15-Jul-2015
2	13-Jul-2015	22-Jul-2015
3	20-Jul-2015	29-Jul-2015
4	27-Jul-2015	5-Aug-2015
5	3-Aug-2015	12-Aug-2015
6	10-Aug-2015	19-Aug-2015
7	17-Aug-2015	26-Aug-2015
8	24-Aug-2015	2-Sep-2015
9	31-Aug-2015	9-Sep-2015
10	7-Sep-2015	16-Sep-2015
11	14-Sep-2015	23-Sep-2015

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Welcome to "Analog Circuits"

A warm welcome to all of you to "Analog Circuits" from our team. Here are a few basic points about the course. Feel free to use the online forum for any queries you have. Enjoy!

Nagendra Krishnapura

About the course

• The course officially starts on 1st July 2015
  
• The course lasts 11 weeks
  
• For certification, completion of assignments for the first 8 weeks(basic concepts; analysis of circuits without storage elements) will be considered. 
  

Lectures

• Each week, one unit, with a number of lessons under each unit, will be released. The total duration of lectures will be about 2.5 hours per week. The lectures will be released as per the schedule which will be in a separate follow-up announcement.
  
• It is best to watch the lessons in sequence the first time around. You can go back to the any (part of any) lesson any time afterwards. You can cover the unit in several sessions. 
• For offline viewing, lectures can be downloaded from the links below each lecture. 
  

Activity questions

• These are important. Work these out immediately after each lesson to ensure that you absorbed what was covered in that lesson. 
  

Assignments

• The assignment covering the contents of a particular week will be due on the following week. The schedule of assignments will be announced with the lecture schedule. 
• You will have at least one weekend between the release of lectures and the assignment due date. But do not leave all assignment problems to the last day/hour!
  
• After the deadline, the correct answers to assignment questions will be displayed. 
  

Announcements and Forum

• Important announcements will be put up under this section. The forum is for general discussion. Make sure to follow both of these regularly. 

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Welcome to Analog Circuits

• The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.       
• The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.