Intro to Electronics November 2010
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Current revision as of 12:34, 18 September 2015
First class: Monday, November 8, 2010 7-9 PM
Concepts discussed:
- Current (Measured in Amps, usually represented with I)
- Voltage (Measured in Volts, usually represented with V)
- Power (Measured in Watts, usually represented with P)
- Nets, also known as nodes. Can be thought of as wires.
- Voltages must always add up when you go around the circuit
- Currents must add up in/out of a node. (Water in pipes analogy.)
Components covered:
- Batteries
- Battery as a voltage source
- Total power (mAh) supplied by a battery - varies but can be calculated.
- Battery parasitic (internal) resistance (LED powered by coin cell with no series resistor)
- Resistors
- Series combination of resistors: R(total) = R1 + R2
- Parallel combination of resistors: R(total) = 1/(1/R1 + 1/R2)
- Calculating current through a resistor given voltage and resistance: I = V/R
- Calculating voltage across resistor given current through it: V = I*R
- Calculating resistance required to produce a chosen current given the voltage across the resistor: R = V/I
- Diodes
- Discussion of forward voltage of a diode, finding it on a datasheet
- Diodes in a circuit are either on (voltage drop is equal to forward voltage) or off (voltage drop must be less than forward voltage for this to happen).
- LEDs: Higher Vf than regular diodes - see datasheet
- Look up Vf and If of LED from datasheet
- Design to never run quite at If (Component tolerances etc.)
- Use resistor in series to prevent burnout of LED
- Whatever voltage is in the circuit that is greater than Vf is dropped by the resistor. (In that simple circuit.)
- LEDs in parallel need separate resistors due to manufacturing variability.
First homework for Intro to Electronics November 2010
For homework_1, calculate:
- ) The current through the entire circuit
- ) The voltage at the upper right corner of the circuit
- ) The power dissipated in R1
- ) The power dissipated in R2
For homework_2, calculate:
- ) The equivalent resistance of R6, R8, and R9 combined. Trick: I only showed you how to combine two resistors in parallel, but that's all you need. Try to figure it out without asking me. :-)
- ) The current through the entire circuit
- ) The voltage at the upper right corner of the circuit
- ) The current through R6
- ) The current through R8
For homework_3, calculate:
- ) The equivalent resistance of R11 and R12 combined
- ) The current through the entire circuit
- ) The power dissipated in R12