Electronics

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In this lecture course you will learn the fundamentals of electronics beginning with simple electrical theory. You’ll explore the role of different components and devices, learn the laws governing their behaviours and should develop an understanding of basic circuitry. You will learn about Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws, resistances, voltages, DC and AC currents, capacitors, inductors, diodes, junctions, transistors and MOSFETS. You’ll also cover the basics of digital electronics (logic gates and Boolean algebra). We will look at how combinations of discrete devices can be used to build up more complex circuitry and you will have the opportunity to see how electronics can be used to build up the technology which we are most familiar today from flat-screen TVs and smartphones to mars rovers. Nearly everything we use in this day and age relies on electronics. We hope that throughout this course you learn to appreciate how the technology around you functions and we hope to pull apart some electronic devices to explore their inner workings.