Understanding how to analyze, simulate, and verify electronic circuits is a fundamental skill in electronics. Every reliable system starts with a well-analyzed circuit, but proper techniques, practical simulations, and hands-on exercises ensure your design works—whether for a hobby project, prototype, or professional application. This course guides you step-by-step through circuit analysis from basics to advanced concepts using SPICE and visual animations. You’ll learn to apply Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws, nodal and mesh analysis, simplify circuits with Thevenin and Norton equivalents, and analyze DC, transient, and AC responses through practical demonstrations. The course provides a structured, hands-on introduction to circuit analysis. You’ll follow a clear workflow suitable for simple resistor circuits or complex RLC and filter networks. Key highlights include step-by-step SPICE simulations, visual animations for current and voltage behavior, DC, transients, and AC concepts.
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Apply Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws to analyze DC circuits, then simulate circuit behavior using SPICE.
Apply nodal, mesh, and superposition methods, simplify with Thevenin/Norton equivalents, and simulate circuit behavior using SPICE.
Analyze transient and AC circuits with capacitors and inductors, design filters, and simulate real-world applications using SPICE.
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There are 3 modules in this course
This module introduces fundamental circuit concepts, starting with real-world examples to explain voltage, current, and resistance. You’ll apply Ohm’s Law to calculate and simulate resistor networks in series and parallel. Finally, you’ll learn Kirchhoff’s Laws, hand-solve multi-loop circuits, and verify results with SPICE simulations.
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4 videos2 readings1 peer review
This module covers advanced circuit analysis techniques, starting with nodal and mesh methods to systematically calculate voltages and currents. You’ll explore the superposition theorem to analyze multi-source circuits and verify results in SPICE. Finally, you’ll learn Thevenin and Norton equivalents to simplify circuits for efficient load analysis and practical verification.
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4 videos1 reading1 peer review
This module covers energy storage and transient behavior in capacitors and inductors, including RC charging and discharging. You’ll explore AC circuits, impedance, and resonance in RLC networks, solving them mathematically and verifying with SPICE simulations. Finally, you’ll learn about RC low-pass and high-pass filters, analyzing frequency response and cutoff behavior through Bode diagrams in SPICE.
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment2 peer reviews
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