Week #1: 9/8 & 10. Syllabus and Intro to Course

[rjagodowski]

This first week we discuss the syllabus and do a quick review of key theories and concepts from your Circuit Theory courses.

Here are some topics with which you should be very familiar:

Ohm's Law: V=I*R, I = V/R, R=V/I
Power Formulas: P=I*V = V^2/R = I^2 * R
Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL): The algebraic sum of the voltage rises & drops around any closed loop is equal to zero.
Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL): The algebraic sum of the currents entering and leaving a node must equal zero.
Voltage Divider: VRx = VT * (Rx/RT)
Resistor Color Code

We'll briefly review these on 9/10.

For the first week's lesson, please read pages 1, 2 & 3 on the following link:
Semiconductor Basics from Electronics-Tutorials

Here are tutorials on Semiconductor Diode Basics 1 and Silicon Diode Basics 2 from Wisc-Online.com, as well as this one on Basic Operation of a Silicon Diode .

We will also spend part of the 9/10 lecture discussing the equipment being used in lab this semester. The content for the first lab experiment is found .