Electronics - Basics of AC Circuits

What you'll learn

Practical and Important Characteristics of an AC Signal (Wave)
Period, Frequency, Peak-to-peak voltage, Peak Voltage and RMS Voltage of an AC Signal
Choosing Correct Number of Significant Figures in Calculation
How to Use an Oscilloscope, Signal Generator and other relevant pieces of test equipment in electronics
Basic Behavior of Resistors and Inductors in AC Circuits
Calculating Reactance of Resistors and Inductors in AC Circuits
Concept of Resonance and Related Calculations

Requirements

Basics of DC Circuits

Description

The course used as an individual module will provide you with the following:

The course starts with introducing all the important parameters of an AC wave like different voltages, period and frequency, practical measurements on an oscilloscope included.

Next, we'll show you how you can use an oscilloscope and signal generator practically.

Next, we'll learn the practical and important concepts and behavior of resistors, capacitors and inductors in AC circuits, along with the corresponding calculations and practical live circuits.

We'll also introduce the concept of resonance along with the corresponding calculations.

In the end you'll be provided with some exercises including the solutions.

The course used in conjunction with all the accompanying courses in the series coming before and after it (see the series on greatitcourses website) will enable you to have a solid and practical understanding of AC and DC electronics and to be able to design fairly advanced electronics circuits consisting of transistors, resistors, capacitors, diodes, inductors, having AC or DC power sources. Those circuits could be amplifiers, filters, power supply systems, etc. You would also be able to do all the necessary calculations related to such circuits yourself.

One important characteristic of this course is that it allows you to avoid the unnecessary theory that would never be used practically in electronics while including all the practical important theory, thereby saving you a lot of time in the process.

The main characteristics of this series are as follows:

The series omits all the theory that you are not going to use in your work anyway, assuming that you don't want to do anything very complicated in electronics, for example design a full-fledged frequency counter, but you still want to be able to design and build fairly complicated circuits like amplifiers, filters, etc.

You will be able to do all the necessary calculations related to your own designs.

You will have all the practical skills to work with different pieces of test equipment like oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.

You will be provided with useful end of course exercises that will solidify your learning.

In short, the series will teach you the tricks of the trade. It will teach you practical electronics in a relatively short amount of time.

To course code for this course is "21". You can use the code to refer to this course in your communication with us.

Who this course is for:

Anybody who wants to be able to design fairly advanced electronics circuits in a relatively short amount of time