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Electronics Tutorial

Note that the electronics tutorial is ©1998 Alex Pounds. All rights reserved.

1. Electronic systems
2. The resistor
* Wire wound resistor
* Carbon film resistor
* Production Spread
* Colour coding
* The resistor printed code
3. Current
4. Resistances in series
5. Parallel circuits
6. Parallel circuits experiment
7. Resistors in parallel
8. Power & energy
* Power rating
9. Digital & analogue voltmeters
10. Logic - Digital electronics
* The OR gate
* The AND gate
* The NOT gate
* The NOR gate
* The NAND gate
* The XOR gate
11. The potential divider
12. Measuring potential dividers
13. Using different voltmeters
14. The potentiometer
15. The Light Dependent Resistor
16. The Thermistor
17. Binary numbers
* Binary counting
18. The Seven-segment display
19. The Binary Coded Decimal (BCD)
20. Diodes
* Silicon diode
* Germanium diode
* Zener diode
* Light Emitting Diode (LED)
* Use of diodes
* Testing diodes
21. Which indicator?
22. Switches
* Toggle switch
* Slide switch
* Rotary switch
* Push switch
* Microswitch
* Reed switch
* Tilt switch
* Ways & poles
23. Transistors
* The NPN transistor
* Experiment to turn a lamp on by touch
* Experiment to determine the current characteristic & find its hFE
* The transistor load driver
* The Field Effect Transistor (FET)
* Properties comparison between a FET transistor & an NPN transistor
* The MOSFET transistor
* Properties comparison between a MOSFET transistor & an NPN transistor
* Transistors as gates
24. Integrated Circuits
25. The relay
26. The Capacitor
* Types of capacitor
o The non-electrolytic capacitor
o The variable capacitor
o The electrolytic capacitor
o The tantalum capacitor
* Charging a capacitor
27. The bistable (latch)
* From NOR gates
* From NAND gates
* The Memory Register
* The D-Type (Data Type) Bistable
* The Timing Diagram
* Counting circuit
* The Binary Up Counter
* The BCD counter
* Uses of bistables
* Contact Bounce
* Stopwatch using a pulse generator (astable)
28. The Astable (or pulse generator)
29. The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO)
30. The 555 timer as an astable
31. The monostable multivibrator
* Uses of a monostable
32. The 555 timer as a monostable
* Design a monostable
33. Alarms
34. Alternating voltage and current (AC)
* Types of AC
o Sine wave
o Triangular wave
o Square wave
o Astable

Props to Digg for the reference.