General · Lesson 3 of 40
Fundamentals of Electricity and Electronics
How current flows, Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, power, series and parallel circuits, resistors, switches, relays and protective devices, AC with capacitance, inductance and transformers, meters and troubleshooting, batteries, semiconductors, logic, binary numbers and motors.
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- Explain electron flow, magnetism and induction, and the laws of Ohm, Kirchhoff, Faraday and Lenz
- Calculate current, voltage, resistance and power in series, parallel and series-parallel circuits
- Decode resistor color bands and match switches, relays and protective devices to their jobs
- Work with AC values, capacitance, inductance, impedance and transformer turns ratios
- Use meters to find opens, and service lead-acid and nickel-cadmium batteries correctly
- Describe diodes, transistors, logic gates, binary numbers and DC and AC motors