I really enjoyed taking 10H with Darabi: this class really made me appreciate circuits and further developed my intuition for them. Some of the content was review from ECE 3 or Physics 1B -- we only get to 2nd-order circuits, and the course largely works with resistors, capacitors, and inductors as its 3 main components. However, the intuition and depth the course introduced with just these 3 fundamental components went far beyond what was covered in the previous 2 courses. On this note, Darabi the lecturer must be given his due credit. He has a way of framing circuits that simultaneously generalizes its properties so as to give a broad, eagle-eye view whilst also detailing it with precision. He doesn't hand-wave out exceptions. For example, he defined a resistor as "any component in which a graph can be drawn with its voltage on one axis and its current on the other." In this way, a diode can be classified as a resistor. Resistors which do not "obey" Ohm's Law exactly are also classified as resistors. He does this with all other topics introduced as well. Though the class mostly concerns itself with LTI circuits and consequently LTI components, rendering this fact a miniscule portion of the course, this introduction to resistors allows for a more broad-eyed view on circuits, perhaps as a precursor of what is to follow in proceeding courses, which I greatly appreciated.

The workload was manageable. We had overall 4 homework sets throughout the quarter, each spaced around 2-3 weeks apart, and only one midterm along. The first homework is significantly less time-consuming than the others, taking roughly 2-3 hours to complete. The other homeworks roughly average around 6-12 hours each, each homework set taking more time than the previous to complete. Each homework set consists of approximately 8 or 9 questions, with typically 3 of them being extra credit. I found these problems quite tricky, especially at first in Homework 2 when the circuits became more complex than what I was used to in previous courses, but they were quite fun as well and required you to be a little clever, which is sometimes enjoyable. Eventually though the problems do give you repetitive practice and your abilities for solving them grow. You will find that most circuits are simply 1st/2nd order differential equations and most circuit analysis techniques are simply clever ways to describe circuits as systems of differential equations in as convenient a manner as possible. By Homeworks 3 and 4 I felt as though I was doing Math 33B work. It is time-consuming, but most of the cleverness goes into the beginning 10% of the problem when you are identifying what to best focus on writing into equation, and the rest of the 90% is the laboriousness of solving the differential equation.

The midterm and final were much easier than the homeworks, around 75% of the difficulty (although I didn't take into account the fact that I was much more experienced doing the final than I was in the homeworks leading up to it). Class performance was reportedly great, with many students receiving perfect scores on the midterm.

Overall it was a great class, and I'd highly recommend it.

The lectures are well structured, interesting and provide solid intuition of circuits as a foundational class. I enjoyed the small class size as it facilitated interactive learning and made it easy to approach Prof Darabi with questions. I appreciated that the honors content was optional, as it was enriching to learn extra content without having to stress over mastering it for the homework and tests.

Professor Darabi is an amazing professor. I don't know what grade I will get in the class but it doesn't matter because what you learn is super valuable. You don't necessarily learn a ton of new content, as much is a review if you are an EE major, but professor Darabi teaches you how to think about circuits in a very intuitive yet analytical way. Highly reccomend Professor Darabi

Depending on the time sequence of your circuit-related physics/engineering courses, many concepts may appear elsewhere before (physics 1 series, ECE 3...). In general, this course is a good review and elevation to circuit theory fundamentals. Professor Darabi has a well-structured lecture with examples, but it is still worthwhile to do practice problems from other sources before the exams besides the given examples and homework problems (don't forget to review transformer equations). The textbook is probably the only thing to be improved for this course, as I personally think it is a little bit old (from half a century ago), but as long as you follow the lectures, you do not need it.

Darabi is an excellent lecturer, and I enjoyed the class. However, as implied with the honors notation, this class is more difficult, and goes more in depth than the regular counterpart. There is a curve, and I am likely among those saved by the curve. Darabi handwrites his notes on the whiteboard and does not record lectures for the most part, so it's not as easy to catch up if you miss a lecture, and assigns homework roughly every other week. The homework consists of 6 to 7 mandatory problems, and the rest are bonus questions. The exams are intuitive if you understand capacitors and inductors well, otherwise they are a bit of a pain. Would take another class with Darabi again.

Only dislike is his failure to record lectures.

Darabi is a pretty good professor. His lectures are clear and has a really good intuition of circuit analysis. This class comprised of 4 homework assignments, a midterm, and a final. These are all rather difficult assignments. If you pay attention in class and study the homeworks, you should be able to do well on the exams.

Professor Hooman gives great intuition about circuit analysis in the time domain. His midterm and final were relatively hard but you can get a 100% on both if you listen to him during lecture and make sure you understand the homeworks. Homeworks were okay with 1 or 2 hard questions on each homework. He also introduces stuff like diodes, transistors, frequency response plots which weren't necessary but I guess that's probably because its the honors version.