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Electronics is fundamental to modern life.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
27 years, 9 months
Units & Quizzes
33
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Using an interactive website, videos, and easy-to-use electronic circuit design and simulation software, this course, An introduction to electronics, will show how electronic devices and systems pervade everything we do, and teach some of the basic ideas.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Recognise a variety of exciting high-tech products and systems enabled by electronics
- Manipulate voltages, currents and resistances in electronic circuits
- Demonstrate familiarity with basic electronic components and use them to design simple electronic circuits
- See how signals can be represented in the time and frequency domains for Fourier analysis
- Record, analyse and filter audio signals to improve their fidelity.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction 00:10:00
- Learning outcomes 00:07:00
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- Electronics everywhere 00:10:00
- Autonomous systems 00:07:00
- Sensing 00:10:00
- Logic 00:07:00
- Actuation 00:07:00
- The sensing–logic–actuation cycle in practice 00:15:00
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- Basic theory of electrical circuits 00:10:00
- Basic electrical quantities 00:15:00
- Relationships between quantities 00:15:00
- Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff ’s laws 00:03:00
- Ohm’s law 00:05:00
- Kirchhoff ’s laws 00:10:00
- Series and parallel networks (combining the laws) 00:07:00
- Colour coding and standard resistor values 00:10:00
- Some fundamental circuits 00:03:00
- Voltage dividers Unlimited
- The Wheatstone bridge 00:15:00
- Operational amplifier circuits 00:20:00
- Designing a sensor circuit 00:20:00
