• DC Circuits
o Current
o Voltage Resistance
o Unit Conversion
o Connecting Cells and Batteries
o Measuring Voltage
o Resistance: color code, resistors in series and parallel, and series and parallel combined, resistor measurement
o Ohm’s Law
o Power
o Series and Parallel DC circuits
o Current and Voltage in series and parallel circuits
o Magnetism
o Inductance
o Capacitance and Capacitor Application
• AC Circuits
o Alternating
o AC measurement: RMS, Peak, and Peak to Peak voltage
o AC measurement: Oscilloscope
o Capacitors in AC circuits
o RC circuits
o Inductance and Inductors in AC circuits
o RL circuits
o Resonance Circuits
o Reactance
o RLC Circuits
o Transformers and Transformer Ratios
• Semiconductor Devices
o Semiconductor Fundamentals
o PN junction diodes, testing PN junction diodes
o Zener Diodes, testing Zener Diodes
o PNP and NPN transistors, testing transistors
o Field Effect Transistors (FETs), testing FETs
o Thyristors
o SCRs, testing SCRs
o Integrated Circuits and IC identification
o Optoelectric Devices, testing LEDs
• Linear Circuits
o Power Supplies, rectifiers and filters
o Voltage regulation
o Amplifiers
o Oscillators
o 555 timer
o Waveshaping circuits
• Digital Circuits
o Binary Number system
o Basic Logic Gates and Circuitry
o TTL Gating Circuits
The class will also build many circuits throughout the semester, do a problem-solving circuits activity, work with photovoltaics, and use various electronic test equipment.
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