-- Course Begins August 22, 2013 --

Overview

This Introduction To Analog Electronics course will be split up into 10 lessons with the lecture video for each lesson hosted on youtube. The lectures will be to 8-13 minutes in length so that you have enough time to see the information and can go over it twice to perform any of the experiments while following along with the video. Each lecture will contain 4 main sections, an introduction, a plain english explanation, theory and real world example. In addition, each lesson video will be hosted at PyroEDU with downloadable offline information and material like homework, schematics, formulas and parts information.

Course Content

1. Introduction (8/29/2013)
2. AC vs. DC Electricity (9/5/2013)
3. Rectifying Diode Circuits (9/12/2013)
4. The Zener Diode (9/19/2013)
5. RC and RL Filters (9/26/2013)
6. RLC Filter Design (10/3/2013)
7. Active Filter Design (10/10/2013)
8. Design A BJT Amplifier (10/17/2013)
9. Design A Simple Amplifier (10/24/2013)
10. Design An Audio Amplifier (10/31/2013)

Expectations

This course is meant to take you, the learner, from a blank slate to a more informed individual by teaching about analog electronics in a hands-on way, as the lecture videos will emphasize and guide you with experimentation. You should expect to learn the basic concepts used in the analog domain like AC vs. DC electricity, passive filters, active filters and different types of amplifiers. Beyond that, you should also expect to get a better 'feeling' for what it takes to make an all-analog-hardware design.