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
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Introduction
- Principles of basic electronic circuits
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Safety warnings
- Read electrical schematics
- Build circuits on breadboards
- Types of resistors
- Resistor characteristics
- Read resistor color codes
- Measure resistance
- 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
- What is an oscilloscope?
- Measure a signal
- Oscilloscope display settings
- Oscilloscope trigger settings
- 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
- Alternating current vs. direct current
- Sine wave characteristics
- Measure AC voltage
- Frequency domain
- Bandwidth and square waves
- Signal sources
- 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
- Inductance
- What is an inductor?
- Types of inductors
- L/R response
- Capacitors vs. inductors
- Continue to learn more on electronics
