Circuits and Electronics 1: Basic Circuit Analysis

Regardless of your prior experience with electronics or your desire to understand how computers and cell phones work, or how to learn fundamental electrical engineering and circuit analysis, this online electronics course can teach you how to understand the most important principles of a vast variety of the modern electronic world. Develop essential knowledge of electrical circuits, electronic systems, circuit theory and electronics fundamentals while building skills relevant to modern technology and engineering.

In this course you will examine electrical circuits and circuit analysis, with a primary focus on resistive devices, resistive circuits and electrical networks. You will learn electrical circuit analysis techniques including Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL), Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL), node method, and nodal analysis, and acquire the ability to solve electrical circuits in a practical context. These essential circuit analysis methods provide a foundation for understanding electronic circuit design and electrical engineering principles.

You will learn about independent and dependent sources, linearity, superposition, Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorem, which are important electrical/electronic circuit analysis techniques. Understanding these fundamental principles will help you develop practical circuit-solving, circuit analysis and electronics engineering skills.

You will also see new information about digital electronics, including digital abstraction and combinational gates, before understanding MOSFET switches and small-signal analysis. These aspects are foundational for many of the more complex aspects of semiconductor devices, digital circuits, computer hardware and electronic systems, and provide valuable knowledge for further study in electronics engineering, digital circuit design and computer engineering.