An introduction to electronics

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An introduction to electronics provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Using an interactive website, videos, and easy-to-use electronic circuit design and simulation software, this free course, An introduction to electronics,...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Electronics everywhere
    • 1 Electronics everywhere
    • 1.1 Autonomous systems
    • Sensing
    • Logic
    • Actuation
    • 1.2 The sensing–logic–actuation cycle in practice
    • 2 Basic theory of electrical circuits
    • 2 Basic theory of electrical circuits
    • 2.1  Basic electrical quantities
    • 2.2  Relationships between quantities
    • 2.3 Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff ’s laws
    • Ohm’s law
    • Kirchhoff ’s laws
    • Series and parallel networks (combining the laws)
    • 2.4 Colour coding and standard resistor values
    • 3 Some fundamental circuits
    • 3 Some fundamental circuits
    • 3.1 Voltage dividers
    • 3.2 The Wheatstone bridge
    • 3.3  Operational amplifier circuits
    • 3.4  Designing a sensor circuit
    • 4  Signals and signal processing
    • 4.1  High-fidelity sound reproduction and electronics
    • 4.2  Recording sounds
    • 4.3  Recording and analysing speech
    • 4.4  Signals and sine waves
    • 4.5  Making signals from combinations of sine waves
    • The square wave challenge
    • 4.6  From the time domain to the frequency domain
    • 4.7  Signals and noise
    • 4.8  Filtering
    • 4.9  Amplifying signals
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements