Practices include component identification, breadboarding circuits, resistor and capacitor color codes and circuit measurements using the VOM and digital multimeter. The lecture includes the theory and practice of alternating current principles. Topics include series and parallel resonance, transformers, single and poly-phase voltages, coupling, filters, and an introduction to pulse waveform. The laboratory course includes experimental study discussed in lecture. Data are gathered from series-parallel tuned and untuned circuits and transformers.
Extensive use is made of signal generators, the oscilloscope, digital multimeter, and bridges.
First course in mathematics applied to electronic problems. Scientific notation and units are followed by algebraic operations, circuit calculations, and graphing. A calculator is required. This second course in the techniques of electronics mathematics prepares the student for Electronics 6. Trigonometry applied to electronic circuit problems.