Analog Electronics — Daily Schedule Term 4

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See also Daily Schedule-Term 5

Week 1 — Voltage, Current, Energy, Resistance

• Tuesday, Jan. 13
  • Theory: What is Voltage?
  • Practice: Radio Shack Learning Lab kit (hereafter just “kit”) Inventory
• Friday, Jan. 16
  • Practice: Load the batteries into the kit and separate out the resistors
  • Theory: What is Resistance?
  • Practice: Resistor color coding
  • Practice: Build the circuit diagrammed in The Simplest Possible Circuit

Week 2 — Power — Circuit Diagrams — Kirchhoff’s Laws

• Tuesday, Jan. 20
  • Practice: The circuit diagram of The Simplest Possible Circuit that you built last time
  • Theory: Resistance and Power, with Examples
  • Practice: Let’s build the two second-simplest circuits! You will start reading circuit diagrams!
    • Build the circuit diagrammed in Two Resistors in Series
    • Build the circuit diagrammed in Two Resistors in Parallel
• Friday, Jan. 23
  • Theory: Come with the 20 problems in the last handout completed! We will go over them at the beginning of class.
  • Practice: A circuit that lights an LED solidly
  • Theory: Kirchhoff’s Laws
  • Practice: Let’s build Mims’ first circuit on pp. 14-18, a circuit that flashes an LED

Week 3 —

• Tuesday, Jan. 27
  • Theory: Resistors in Series and In Parallel - FORTHCOMING