Welcome to Introduction to Electronics.
I'm Dr. Robinson.
In this lesson I wanted to give you a quick overview of things to
come in this course.
Now there's really no need for me to motivate electronics to you.
You couldn't be watching this video without electronics and
electronic devices.
And you wouldn't have available to you all the technology that you use every day.
Now, the particular devices that we are going to study in this
course are the diode, the transistor and the operational amplifier.
The diode and
transistor, can truly be considered to be fundamental electronic devices.
While the op amp is a more complicated device,
that's composed of the more fundamental devices.
Now as we proceed through the course we will study the operation of
these electronic devices.
And we will also study particular application circuits which
use the devices to achieve some functionality.
And you can consider these application circuits to be building blocks which can
be combined together to form more complicated circuits.
Now we begin this course with a review of topics from linear circuits.
We then move to a module on operational amplifiers followed by one on diodes and
we conclude with a module on transistors.
Now at the end of this course you should understand the operation of
these fundamental devices.
And you will have available to you techniques that you can use to
analyze more complicated circuits.
And overall this course will give you a good foundation for
the further study of electronics.
So, thank you for taking this course, I hope you enjoy it.
And I will see you in future lessons.