Basic Electronics For Beginners

This video provides an introduction into basic electronics for beginners. It covers topics such as series and parallel circuits, ohm's law, light emitting diodes, resistors, potentiometers, voltage divider circuits and more.

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[rublesalvarez]

This guy will rebuild our civilization after the apocalypse

[COCO]

Good teacher. His explanations are easy to understand. Today I am 72 years old and a Happy retired worker. It’s the first time that I have at last understood the basics of Electronics! Thanks to you, professor.🙏

[howardroth]

This was a very good tutorial. I thought the instructor did a wonderful job walking the viewers through the use of resistors. He had great examples, explained things well with pertinent illustrations. And he had a very good voice for instructing.

[RocketChild]

I'm trying to learn how to circut bend, but first need to learn the basics of electronics. Thanks for the tutorial, you're a good teacher.

[unchayndspersonalaccount]

0:06 Resistors Intro and Ohm's Law
2:28 Power
5:04 Resistors in Series versus Resistors in Parallel
9:41 Lightbulbs
11:16 LEDs
15:02 Potentiometers
23:19 Voltage Dividers
29:26 Solar Cells

[graysonvirtue]

An important point for anyone not understanding the fundamental "what actually *is* voltage/current":

A rough concept to consider is how electricity is being transmitted.
Electrons loosely speaking are responsible for electricity.
A coulomb is a measure of electrical charge.
A couloumb represents a number of electrons, regardless of their state. This is charge. The number isn't immediately important. It's a big number.

Electrons aren't "consumed"; they have a level of energy at which they've been excited, and transmit this energy to power things.

Energy is measured in Joules. The same joules in any other form of measurement of energy, e.g. chemical energy.

So if each electron is holding a certain number of joules, and a multitude of electrons make up a coulomb, we can state how much energy is contained in this collection of electrons as the number of Joules per Coulomb. "Joules per coulomb" is the same as "Volts".
V = J/C = Joules per Coulomb.

Current is the "rate of flow of charge".
As previously mentioned, charge is measured in coulombs. It gives the number of coulombs passing a point per in a circuit per second, regardless of how many joules possesed by those coulombs.
I = C/s = coulombs per second.

So with this in mind, power (Joules per second, measured in Watts), can be found by muliplying the two measurements together.
The fractions cancel out:
J/C x C/s = J/s = Watts!

This explains why voltage goes down across a component, e.g. lightbulb, as Joules are being taken from the electrons/coulombs and are being converted to light!

[johnbunyan]

This video took me back 63 years, when I started a one-year electronics course, at university, here in England.

[Coreyahno]

Wow what incredible timing! I just got a beginners electronics assembly kit from my girlfriend for Christmas to give me a head start before my engineering classes start soon. This will definitely be helpful

[MabitsoSebatane]

I love the way you explain everything. ive always worked on computers and main boards, but its nice knowing whats going on at the physics level. thanks for the video.

[emil_ksparkes]

Awesome Electronics Tutorial: V=IR - P=VI - Green LED = 2 Vdc drop across it - total R in series - total R in parallel - Well illustrated Potentiometer explanation i will add that the C terminal is also called the variable WIPER. Conventional current vs Electron current [got it] You are a Rock Star my friend

[jambajuice]

This video made me finally have that oh shit I’m an idiot moment, that very moment everything clicks!!! Thank you so much! Seriously thank you, I’ve been staring at my Arduino sensors just with mass confusion!! Resistance was the one thing I couldn’t understand. Finally clicked when you pretty much said, resistance is a gate, we only need 2 people to work, resistance opens the gate for two workers, and shuts it to 1000 people trying to also get in!

[shelemameskela]

I'm currently asking myself how do you know so much? You are a literal genius, you have hundreds of videos for so many different areas, I don't know how someone can know so much information.

[oxsnxiwn]

Thank god this exists I’m going back to study electrical engineering after 2 years of doing nothing and I have to relearn years of information before august lol

[imfrompluto]

You're back after some time I guess... We all love you ❤️

[greenbeginner]

Remember your video title and audience: Basic Electronics for Beginners. Already, at 0:22 you’re jumping into calculating resistance when you haven’t even touched the basic idea of why a resistor is needed in the first place. Now look at the screen at 4:57. Does that look anywhere near “basic?” At this point, this “beginner” is totally left in the dust. Now go to 21:53. This beginner is frustrated and is thinking of quitting the quest of learning the basics of electronics. Just letting you know that this video is definitely not basic and not for beginners. But it was presented free to me and I thank you for your time.

[padmanabhanvijendran]

I feel bad why YouTube is not so popular in my generation. What a great series.

[Uejji]

I learned the product-over-sum rule for pairs of parallel resistors. ie R1*R2/(R1 + R2). Sometimes it's easier to work out by hand.

It's less nice for 3 or more parallel resistors, but it still works as long as you only do two at a time, and calculated pairs you can think of as its own resistor.

For instance: with 3 resistors in parallel, you can do R1, 2 = R1*R2/(R1 + R2) and R1, 2, 3 = R1, 2*R3/(R1, 2 + R3)
With 4 resistors in parallel, you can do R3, 4 = R3*R4/(R3 + R4) and R1, 2, 3, 4 = R1, 2*R3, 4/(R1, 2 + R3, 4)
Etc.

Like I used to tell my math students, sometimes it isn't a "more right" way or a "superior" way, just another tool that sometimes is a better fit to your problem.

[goldenrain]

4:36 Your voice and laugh is like music to my ears XD Thank you so much for your high quality videos ! :)

[COSMACELF]

Resistance isn't futile, it's V over I

[VasilevArtem-gu]

Well, I'm trying go deep into machine learning and this Electronics lecture is very helpful. Thank you, sir