Electronic Basics

Most of the time, resistor networks can be easily simplified by combining the series and parallel arrangement of resistors. But sometimes the resistors are neither in series nor ...

Inductors aren’t as famous as their passive counterparts, the resistor and capacitor, and, strangely, it can sometimes seem like you spend more time dealing with unintentional ...

Capacitors are an incredibly useful component that are used in a wide variety of circuits for a wide variety of reasons, truly, the variety in applications is nearly mind ...

If you’ve read our tutorial on Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL), you already know how useful and important KVL is for the analysis of any electrical network. The knowledge of KVL is ...

We’ve already discussed how we can take the help of Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL) to determine the direction and magnitude of the current flowing in and out of the nodes, and ...

Similar to Thévenin's Theorem, there is a way to simplify a circuit and represent it with only two components. Unlike Thévenin's Theorem, Norton’s Theorem uses a current supply ...

Thevenin’s Theorem (or Thévenin’s Theorem, if you know the right shortcuts on your keyboard) is a fan favorite of circuits professors around the world. Used in conjunction with ...

When solving DC circuits using Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL) or Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL), you will often get multiple related equations and multiple unknown terms. The nice ...

Even with KCL and KVL, as circuits get more complicated, sometimes the setup and the math can become quite complicated. However, using the superposition theorem, in certain ...

We have gone over Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL) in a previous tutorial and Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL) is very similar but focused on the voltage in a circuit, not the current. ...

While we’ve discussed Ohm’s Law and series and parallel circuits, you’ve probably realized by now that there are many situations where these methods come short when trying to ...

In the basic circuit tutorials up to this point, we have generally represented a voltage potential by just assigning a node one potential and another node a different potential. ...

Every step in the learning process is necessary to build the foundation for the next step. In some cases, that’s more true than other times. In this case, this is doubly the case, ...

Ohm’s Law is a foundational equation in basic circuits and is amazing in its simplicity and its usage. In this tutorial, we’re going to learn about what Ohm’s Law is, where you ...

If you’re first starting to learn about basic circuits or basic electronics, it’s best to take a brief few minutes to understand the basics of electricity and some of the ...