Electronics
Electrical and Circuit Theory
How Electricity Flows Through Circuits
Knowledge of concepts like Ohm’s law, voltage, resistance, and capacitance is essential for designing working electronic circuits. Mastering other topics like switch debouncing, heat sinks, and grounding will help you create better, more reliable projects. Check out the tutorials below to sharpen your skills!
How to Switch De-bounce an Electronic Circuit
Everything you need to know about switch bounce and how to debounce switches in your electronics projects. Includes example circuits and wiring diagrams.
What is Direct Current?
Learn what electric current is, how it behaves, and how electric potential drives the flow of electrons in a circuit.
A Guide to Grounds, Earth, and Grounding Electronic Circuits
Learn about the different types of earths and grounds, and how they apply to everyday electronic circuits.
The Basics of Electromagnetism
Learn the basic concepts of electromagnetism and magnetic fields, the factors affecting a magnetic field, and how to determine the direction of current flow in a wire.
Introduction to Capacitance
Learn the basics of capacitance, how to calculate charge and discharge times, how to calculate the energy and voltage at a particular timepoint, and much more.
Ohm’s Law, Power and Energy
Learn the concepts of energy, power, and Ohm’s law with this practical tutorial that goes in-depth into each topic and includes example calculations.
How Electricity Works
Electricity is the flow of charge traveling from a higher potential to a lower potential. But as we will learn in this article, there is much more to it than that!
How Voltage Dividers Work
Learn about voltage dividers and their practical applications. Also see how to calculate voltage drop, resistance, current, and output voltage in a voltage divider.
What is Alternating Current?
Get an in-depth understanding of alternating current with these pointers on AC waveforms, RMS voltage and current, and AC-DC conversions.
How Electromagnetic Coils Work
Learn how wire coils induce electromagnetic fields, how to generate current with a wire coil and a magnet, and how to make an electromagnet.
How Voltage Works
An introduction to voltage and electric potential energy. We’ll also see how to connect batteries in series and parallel, and how to measure voltages.
How RC Circuits Work
Learn how RC circuits work, what the time constant is, and how to calculate the charge time of an RC circuit.
A Guide to Electrical Heat and Heat Sinks
Learn about power dissipation, heat, calculating heat sink size, and how to install CPU heat sinks with this informative guide.
Everything You Need to Know About Resistance
You won’t get far in electronics without understanding the concepts of resistance.