Basic Electronics Course

Lesson 1 • Atomic Structure and Electric Charge

It covers protons, electrons, and the origin of electric charge. It provides the physical basis for understanding current flow and material conductivity.

Lesson 2 • Ohm's Law and Power

It derives Ohm's Law and the power equation from first principles. Students apply these relationships to calculate unknowns in simple circuits.

Lesson 3 • Voltage, Current, and Resistance

It defines the three fundamental electrical quantities and their units. It connects these quantities to real-world circuit behavior.

Lesson 1 • Inductors and Magnetic Principles

It covers inductance, magnetic fields, and energy storage in coils. It establishes the foundation for understanding transformers and AC reactance.

Lesson 2 • Capacitors: Storage and Behavior

It explains capacitance, dielectric materials, and charge/discharge behavior. It links capacitor properties to filtering and timing applications.

Lesson 3 • Diodes and Basic Semiconductor Devices

It introduces P-N junction behavior, diode characteristics, and common diode types. It prepares students for rectifier and protection circuit design.

Lesson 4 • Resistors: Types and Characteristics

It examines fixed, variable, and specialty resistors along with tolerance and power ratings. It connects resistor selection to circuit performance requirements.

Lesson 1 • Kirchhoff's Laws

It states KVL and KCL and applies them to multi-loop circuits. These laws form the basis for all systematic circuit analysis methods.

Lesson 2 • Series and Parallel Resistor Circuits

It derives equivalent resistance formulas for series and parallel configurations. Students calculate voltage, current, and power in each topology.

Lesson 3 • Thevenin and Norton Theorems

It simplifies complex networks into equivalent two-terminal models. It enables rapid load analysis without re-solving the entire circuit.

Lesson 4 • Mesh and Node Analysis

It applies mesh current and node voltage methods to complex resistive networks. It reduces circuit equations to efficient matrix-solvable form.

Lesson 1 • AC Power Analysis

It distinguishes real, reactive, and apparent power and defines power factor. Students calculate power quantities and understand power factor correction.

Lesson 2 • Phasor Representation and Complex Impedance

It transforms sinusoidal quantities into phasors and defines impedance for R, L, and C. It enables algebraic treatment of AC circuit equations.

Lesson 3 • AC Circuit Analysis with KVL and KCL

It applies Kirchhoff's laws in the phasor domain to solve AC circuits. It extends mesh and node methods to complex impedance networks.

Lesson 4 • Resonance in RLC Circuits

It analyzes series and parallel resonance conditions and quality factor. It connects resonance behavior to filter and tuning circuit design.

Lesson 1 • Linear Voltage Regulator ICs

It introduces three-terminal linear regulator ICs for fixed and adjustable outputs. It covers thermal management and bypass capacitor requirements.

Lesson 2 • Clipper and Clamper Circuits

It constructs diode clipping and clamping circuits for waveform shaping. It predicts output waveforms for various input signals and bias conditions.

Lesson 3 • Rectifier Circuit Configurations

It analyzes half-wave, full-wave, and bridge rectifier topologies. It calculates output voltage, ripple, and diode stress for each configuration.

Lesson 4 • Filtering and Ripple Reduction

It uses capacitor and LC filters to smooth rectified output. It quantifies ripple voltage and selects filter components for target ripple specifications.

Lesson 1 • Multistage Amplifier Design

It cascades amplifier stages to achieve higher gain and optimized impedance matching. It analyzes overall gain, bandwidth, and loading effects between stages.

Lesson 2 • BJT Biasing and DC Operating Point

It establishes stable Q-point using voltage divider and emitter feedback biasing. Correct biasing prevents distortion and ensures linear amplification.

Lesson 3 • Frequency Response of Amplifiers

It analyzes low-frequency and high-frequency roll-off caused by coupling and parasitic capacitances. Students plot Bode diagrams and identify bandwidth limits.

Lesson 4 • Small-Signal BJT Amplifier Analysis

It uses the hybrid-pi model to analyze common-emitter, common-base, and common-collector configurations. It calculates voltage gain and impedance for each topology.

Lesson 1 • Integrators, Differentiators, and Active Filters

It implements op-amp integrator and differentiator circuits and extends them to active filter designs. It covers low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass Butterworth filter topologies.

Lesson 2 • Summing, Difference, and Instrumentation Amplifiers

It builds summing and difference amplifier circuits for signal mixing and rejection. It introduces the instrumentation amplifier for high-CMRR differential sensing.

Lesson 3 • Comparators and Waveform Generators

It uses op-amps as comparators with hysteresis and builds oscillator circuits. It generates square, triangular, and sine waveforms using feedback networks.

Lesson 4 • Ideal Op-Amp Characteristics

It defines ideal op-amp parameters and applies virtual short and virtual open rules. These rules simplify analysis of all feedback-based op-amp circuits.

Lesson 1 • Karnaugh Maps and Logic Minimization

It uses Karnaugh maps to minimize sum-of-products and product-of-sums expressions. It reduces gate count and propagation delay in combinational circuit designs.

Lesson 2 • Combinational Logic Circuit Design

It designs encoders, decoders, multiplexers, demultiplexers, and adder circuits. It implements specified truth tables using minimized gate-level logic.

Lesson 3 • Sequential Logic and Flip-Flops

It introduces SR, D, JK, and T flip-flops and their timing characteristics. It builds registers and counters as foundational sequential circuit elements.

Lesson 4 • Logic Gates and Boolean Algebra

It defines AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR gate operations and Boolean laws. It applies Boolean algebra to simplify logic expressions before implementation.