
Information versus work, batteries, resistors, and Ohm's Law
Electricity as energy transfer and the power equation.
Series resistors and voltage dividers.
Calculating the total equivalent resistance of resistors in parallel.
Introduction to capacitors.
Mechanism of capacitor charge and discharge and the underlying principles of sine waves and their relationship with impedance.
Standard times-one-thousand prefix units, calculating capacitor charge times, and an encounter with Euler's Number.
RC times constant, and sine waves vis-a-vis impedance.
Electronic Fundamentals From Scratch is a short course for those who know essentially nothing about electronics, other than that their lives would be hardly imaginable without the myriad devices that connect and manage our world. Using straightforward diagrams and audio instruction, the student learns step-by-step the fundamentals of electronics, and gains the grounding needed to continue with an in-depth study of the field. This course serves as a prelude to two other “from scratch” Udemy courses, Digital Design from Scratch using VHDL, and, coming soon, Basic Electronics from Scratch.