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Electronics Foundations: Basic Circuits

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Overview

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Discover how to build basic circuits using resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Learn how each component works, how they affect voltage and current, and why they're used.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Principles of basic electronic circuits
  • What you should know
  • Using the exercise files
  • Safety warnings
1. Building Circuits
  • Read electrical schematics
  • Build circuits on breadboards
2. Resistors
  • Types of resistors
  • Resistor characteristics
  • Read resistor color codes
  • Measure resistance
3. Resistive Circuits
  • Resistors in series
  • Voltage dividers
  • Shift voltage levels
  • Measure resistive sensors
  • Potentiometers
  • Resistors in parallel
  • Kirchhoff's circuit laws
  • Wheatstone Bridge
  • Challenge: Light activated switch
  • Solution: Challenge: Light activated switch
4. Oscilloscope Measurements
  • What is an oscilloscope?
  • Measure a signal
  • Oscilloscope display settings
  • Oscilloscope trigger settings
5. Capacitors
  • What is a capacitor?
  • Types of capacitors
  • Read capacitor values
  • Capacitor characteristics
  • Capacitors in parallel
  • Capacitors in series
  • RC circuits
  • Challenge: Camera flash
  • Solution: Camera flash
6. Alternating Current
  • Alternating current vs. direct current
  • Sine wave characteristics
  • Measure AC voltage
7. Electrical Signals
  • Frequency domain
  • Bandwidth and square waves
  • Signal sources
8. Reactive Circuits
  • Impedance
  • Filter frequency response
  • Logarithmic scale
  • Decibels
  • RC low pass filter
  • Decoupling capacitors
  • RC high pass filter
  • Impedance matching and bridging
  • Challenge: Filter audio
  • Solution: Filter audio
9. Inductors
  • Inductance
  • What is an inductor?
  • Types of inductors
  • L/R response
  • Capacitors vs. inductors
Conclusion
  • Continue to learn more on electronics

Taught by

Barron Stone

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