Introduction to Electronics course - free or $50 - Starts Aug 22

[ez24]

Free to take, $50 for certificate

Starts Aug 22, 2016  ends  Oct 16
Registration ends Aug 27


https://www.coursera.org/learn/electronics?recoOrder=23&utm_medium=email&utm_source=recommendations&utm_campaign=recommendationsEmail%7Erecs_email_2016_07_31_17%3A57

Week 1

Introduction and Review

Week 2

Op Amps Part 1

Week 3

Op Amps Part 2

Week 4

Diodes Part 1

Week 5

Diodes Part 2

Week 6

MOSFET Transistors

Week 7

Bipolar Junction Transistors

[Stuartambient]

Interesting course but is it really an "introduction" diving into op-amps almost at the start of the course? I've been working on the All About Circuits material and am almost done with my first pass through book 1.  Semiconductors are not until book 3.  I realize everyone has their own teaching style so I just ask.

Anyway, thanks for the link.  I think I'll sign up for it. I've done some Coursera before and the quality is good and the work challenging. 

Edit: Ok, I got thrown by the word introduction.  Found this under the pre-reqs -

Prerequisite Knowledge

It is assumed that those taking these course will have a working knowledge of linear circuits such as:

    resistive circuit methods (node analysis, mesh analysis, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws)
    RC, RL, RLC circuits and their behavior
    AC circuit analysis (impedences, frequency response, Bode plots)

I got the resistive circuit methods from the AAC material.  Not much of the rest, but stiill 3 weeks to catch up 

[rstofer]

Interesting course but is it really an "introduction" diving into op-amps almost at the start of the course? I've been working on the All About Circuits material and am almost done with my first pass through book 1.  Semiconductors are not until book 3.  I realize everyone has their own teaching style so I just ask.

Anyway, thanks for the link.  I think I'll sign up for it. I've done some Coursera before and the quality is good and the work challenging. 

Edit: Ok, I got thrown by the word introduction.  Found this under the pre-reqs -

Prerequisite Knowledge

It is assumed that those taking these course will have a working knowledge of linear circuits such as:

    resistive circuit methods (node analysis, mesh analysis, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws)
    RC, RL, RLC circuits and their behavior
    AC circuit analysis (impedences, frequency response, Bode plots)

I got the resistive circuit methods from the AAC material.  Not much of the rest, but stiill 3 weeks to catch up 

I was wondering how they pulled off OpAmps in the second week without a lengthy discussion of mesh and nodal analysis.  You simply can't do op amps without Kirchoff's laws.

There's a lot more motivation to learn to swim when the water is over your head!  Go for it!  Fill in the gaps by asking questions of the peer groups or around here.

If you teach op amps in the abstract, they are just an amplifier whose output is related to the difference in the input voltages.  A 'black box', so to speak.

[mtdoc]

Interesting course but is it really an "introduction" diving into op-amps almost at the start of the course? I've been working on the All About Circuits material and am almost done with my first pass through book 1.  Semiconductors are not until book 3.  I realize everyone has their own teaching style so I just ask.

Anyway, thanks for the link.  I think I'll sign up for it. I've done some Coursera before and the quality is good and the work challenging. 

Edit: Ok, I got thrown by the word introduction.  Found this under the pre-reqs -

Prerequisite Knowledge

It is assumed that those taking these course will have a working knowledge of linear circuits such as:

    resistive circuit methods (node analysis, mesh analysis, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws)
    RC, RL, RLC circuits and their behavior
    AC circuit analysis (impedences, frequency response, Bode plots)

I got the resistive circuit methods from the AAC material.  Not much of the rest, but stiill 3 weeks to catch up 

I was wondering how they pulled off OpAmps in the second week without a lengthy discussion of mesh and nodal analysis.  You simply can't do op amps without Kirchoff's laws.

It's meant to be the second course in a series of GIT electronics courses offered by Coursera.  The first course "Linear Circuits" covered the usual stuff.  It was offered a couple of times in the past but not currently.

[ez24]

Prerequisite Knowledge

It is assumed that those taking these course will have a working knowledge of linear circuits such as:

    resistive circuit methods (node analysis, mesh analysis, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws)
    RC, RL, RLC circuits and their behavior
    AC circuit analysis (impedences, frequency response, Bode plots)

I got the resistive circuit methods from the AAC material.  Not much of the rest, but stiill 3 weeks to catch up 
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I also thought it odd to start with OP amps because I also missed the prerequisites

[Stuartambient]

I'll see how it goes.  I'm not doing the certificate option and whatever I can take away from the course will be fine.  I had a look at the pdf's. The math looks intense but at least I've heard of Butterworth and Chebyshev. That has to be worth something. 

[RogerRowland]

I've done it, and the Linear Circuits one that was a pre-requisite.

Overall ok, but not hugely impressed - a lot of variation in the different lecturers' styles.

[JacquesBBB]

All the material is already online.

The first  week covers rapidly all the pre-requisite :  Kirchhoff's law, impedance, transfer  function, frequency response, bode plot 

Interesting course but is it really an "introduction" diving into op-amps almost at the start of the course?

This is frequently done in some lecture courses :  op amp  before  diodes and transistors.

If the op amp is ideal, its behavior is more easy to understand than  real semi conductors.

[RogerRowland]

Interesting course but is it really an "introduction" diving into op-amps almost at the start of the course?

This is frequently done in some lecture courses :  op amp  before  diodes and transistors.

If the op amp is ideal, its behavior is more easy to understand than  real semi conductors.

I agree. This was actually a good thing for me when I took the course - the op amp is such a useful building block and (if ideal) very easy to understand and model. It fired up my interest quickly with all of the possibilities and it was easy to try things out on a breadboard with very little problem. Diodes and transistors come later to focus more on non-linear aspects because up until then, everything has been RLC. Like I said above, I wasn't hugely impressed with the quality and consistency of content, but it may have been tweaked since I did it. Other students had felt the same as me and I had feedback from the tutors that some videos were planned to be re-recorded.