Red Pitaya - Teaching Material - Circuits&Electronics

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Circuits & electronics

Students can learn about passive and active electronic components, their behavior, and their use in theory and practice through videos and written material.

• 1. Resistor circuits
  • 1.1. 1. Objective
  • 1.2. 2. Background
  • 1.3. 3. Kirchhoff’s laws
  • 1.4. 4. Some equations and facts
  • 1.5. 5. Practical example
  • 1.6. 6. Hands on
• 2. Transient Response
  • 2.1. 1. Objective
  • 2.2. 2. Background
  • 2.3. 3. Capacitors
  • 2.4. 4. Inductors
  • 2.5. 5. What? Please explain…
  • 2.6. 6. The experiment
  • 2.7. 7. One last thing
• 3. Analog Filters
  • 3.1. 1. Objective
  • 3.2. 2. Background
  • 3.3. 3. Decibels
  • 3.4. 4. Phase
  • 3.5. 5. Impedance
  • 3.6. 6. Background math / complex voltage divider
  • 3.7. 7. What is common to all filters
  • 3.8. 8. Low pass filter
  • 3.9. 9. High pass filter
  • 3.10. 10. Bode analysis
  • 3.11. 11. Hands on experiment
• 4. OpAmps 101
  • 4.1. 1. Objective
  • 4.2. 2. Background
  • 4.3. 3. How it works
  • 4.4. 4. The symbol
  • 4.5. 5. A comparator
  • 4.6. 6. A voltage follower
  • 4.7. 7. An amplifier
  • 4.8. 8. An inverting amplifier
  • 4.9. 9. A normal amplifier - the experiment
  • 4.10. 9. A less normal amplifier - the experiment
  • 4.11. 10. Conclusion
• 5. Active Filters
  • 5.1. 1. Introduction
  • 5.2. 2. The why
  • 5.3. 3. Enter OpAmps
  • 5.4. 4. Second order low pass filter
  • 5.5. 5. Second order high pass filter
  • 5.6. 6. But what’s the point?
  • 5.7. 7. Band pass filter
  • 5.8. 8. The experiment
  • 5.9. 9. Conclusion
• 6. Superposition
  • 6.1. 1. Introduction
  • 6.2. 2. But why?
  • 6.3. 3. A better alternative
  • 6.4. 4. The experiment.
  • 6.5. 5. Conclusion
• 7. Analog addition and subtraction
  • 7.1. 1. Introduction
  • 7.2. 2. Addition
  • 7.3. 3. Does addition really work?
  • 7.4. 4. Subtraction
  • 7.5. 5. Does a differential amplifier really work?
  • 7.6. 6. Conclusion
• 8. Diodes
  • 8.1. 1. Introduction
  • 8.2. 2. What is a diode?
  • 8.3. 3. Different kinds of diodes
  • 8.4. 4. Markings
  • 8.5. 5. Forward voltage
  • 8.6. 6. Reverse breakdown voltage
  • 8.7. 7. An experiment
  • 8.8. 7. The experiment
  • 8.9. 8. Conclusion
• 9. Full wave rectifiers
  • 9.1. 1. Introduction
  • 9.2. 2. What is a full bridge rectifier?
  • 9.3. 3. The experiment
  • 9.4. 4. A transformer.
  • 9.5. 5. A full wave rectifier with a transformer
  • 9.6. 6. A DC power supply
  • 9.7. 7. Conclusion
• 10. Function Generators
• 13. Digital to Analog Converter