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An Introduction to Electronics Labs Sonny Mercan

This is a lab manual. From the preface: The following 12 labs will give a hands-on introduction to the most basic electronic devices. The first five labs are an introduction to industrial electronics. These components are found in electronic devices meant for every day use. The second six labs are an introduction to digital electronics. Digital electronics are found in devices like calculators and computers that use digital signals consisting of sets of zeroes and ones. The last lab incorporates digital electronics and industrial electronics into a practical application for every day use. These 12 labs are ment to be non-intimidating for the novice and geared towards buiding skills for more detailed electronic experiments. A novice will often put in alot of effort in building an electric circuit only to find out that it does not work. There are steps that can be taken to troubleshoot the circuit. As a rule of thumb, troubleshooting starts from the power supply and goes from the components closest to further. It is useful to start with what one known that will work. For example, if a circuit has a configuration involving a transistor, and one is comfortable with getting a transistor to work, then first getting the transistor to work and then incorporating it into the rest of the circuit can help avoid having to troubleshot the circuit. Even starting with the simplest operations like getting an LED to turn on and then incorporating the functioning configuration into the circuit helps avoid having to troubleshot the circuit. Electronics studies the behavior of charged particles such as electrons and protons. All the laws in Electronics come from observing the rules of nature according to which these particles interact. Though many discoveries in electronics have been made, rediscovering them by novices leads to useful new applications.