Online Class: Basic Electronics

Course Lessons

• Lesson 1 Fundamentals of Electricity

  To begin the course, we introduce some elementary principles of electrical theory specifically related to the study of electronics.

• Lesson 2 Voltage and Current

  In particular, this lesson will introduce and define the concepts of voltage and currenttwo critical parameters of electrical circuits.

• Lesson 3 Power Supplies and Simple Circuits

  In this lesson, we will consider power supplies (sources of voltage and current) and introduce some very simple circuits.

• Lesson 4 Resistor Circuits and Ohms Law

  The lesson discusses a gravitational analogy to resistor circuits to help illustrate what is happening electrically.

• Lesson 5 Resistor Networks

  In the previous lesson, we studied simple single-resistor circuits. Although these circuits illustrate some key principles of electronics, they arent all that interesting by themselves.

• Lesson 6 Capacitor Circuits

  This lesson considers another type of electronic component: the capacitor.

• Lesson 7 Fundamentals of Magnetism

  In this lesson, well look very briefly at magnetism and its relationship to electric charge. These concepts will allow us to discuss another important circuit device, the inductor, in the next lesson.

• Lesson 8 Inductor Circuits

  In this lesson, well add another circuit device to our repertoire: inductors. Our discussion will rely heavily on the concepts of magnetism discussed in the previous lesson.

• Lesson 9 Building Electronic Circuits

  In this lesson, well take a break from our intensive theoretical look at circuits and will turn to some practical considerationsspecifically, some basics of building and testing electronic circuits.

• Lesson 10 Introduction to Semiconductor Devices

  Weve considered a variety of circuit components like resistors, capacitors, and inductors, but perhaps the biggest and most important class of components are based on semiconductors

• Lesson 11 Electronics Applied: Transformers

  In this lesson, well consider an application of what we've learned thus far: transformers. Specifically, well apply what we know about magnetism and inductors.

• Lesson 12 Electronics Applied: Basic Communication Circuits

  The final lesson of this course looks at another application of material from previous lessons: simple communication circuits.