4 Electronic Introduction of Electronic Components Components What are Electronic Components? Purpose of Electronic Components Considerations when obtaining electronic components of Components Switches (Functional operation, symbols) SPST. SPDT, DPST, DPDT, Rotary Switch Switches Magnetic Switches, Key Switches Applications and practical in simple circuits Practical: Identify/test/measure different electronic components 5 The Capacitor Composition , Construction, functional operation, symbols, characteristic curves and values Basic principles of electrostatic charge: Time constant Charging rates and time constant including curves and calculations Graph Application of capacitors in DC (Examples of smoothing circuit and RC Time constant) Capacitors in Series Capacitors in Parallel Calculation of Charge: Practical: Practical: Calculation of total capacitance in Series (2, 3 and 4 Capacitors) Practical: Calculation of total capacitance in Parallel (2, 3 and 4 Capacitors) Practical: Charging Characteristics of the Capacitor. Include drawing of graph from data
4 Electronic Components Introduction of Electronic Components What are Electronic Components? Purpose of Electronic Components Considerations when obtaining electronic components of Components Switches (Functional operation, symbols) SPST. SPDT, DPST, DPDT, Rotary Switch Switches Magnetic Switches, Key Switches Applications and practical in simple circuits Practical: Identify/test/measure different electronic components 5 The Capacitor Composition , Construction, functional operation, symbols, characteristic curves and values Basic principles of electrostatic charge: Time constant Charging rates and time constant including curves and calculations Graph Application of capacitors in DC (Examples of smoothing circuit and RC Time constant) Capacitors in Series Capacitors in Parallel Practical: Calculation of Charge: Practical: Calculation of total capacitance in Series (2, 3 and 4 Capacitors) Practical: Calculation of total capacitance in Parallel (2, 3 and 4 Capacitors) Practical: Charging Characteristics of the Capacitor. Include drawing of graph from data
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