Group 1: What is Electronics?

1. What are Electrons?

2. What is an Electron Current?

3. How do you trace a circuit?

4. What were the first electronics components?

5. How is the Edison Effect explained?

6. How Did Radio Communications Develop?

7. What is an Audion?

Group 2: What Are The Two-Terminal Components Used in Electronic Circuits?

1. What are Resistors Used for?

2. What is an Ohm?
3. What are Carbon Resistors?

4. How are Resistance Values Marked on Carbona Resistors?

5. What is the meaning of Power Rating and how is it determined?

6. What are Wire-Wound Resistors?

7. What are Variable Resistors?

8. How are Variable Resistors Rated?

9. What are Thermistors and VDRs?

10. What are Capacitors Used for?

11. What is a Farad?

12. What is Capacitive Reactance?

13. What is the meaning of the Voltage Rating for a Capacitor?

14. What are some types of Fixed Capacitors?

15. What are Variable Capacitors?

16. What are Inductors used for?

17. What is a Henry?

18. What is Inductive Reactance?

19. What are some types of Inductors?

20. What are Diodes used for?

21. What are some examples of Rectifier Diodes?

22. What are Regulating Diodes?

23. What is an LED?

Group 3: What Are The Three-Terminal Components Used In Electronics Circuit?

1. How does a Triode Tube work?

2. How is a Triode constructed?

3. How are Grid Voltage and Plate Current related?

4. What is a Tetrode?

5. What is Negative Resistance?

6. What is a Pentode?

7. What is a Bipolar NPN Transistor?

8. What is a Bipolar PNP Transistor?

9. How are Base Current and Collector Current related in a Bipolar Transistor?

10. What is a JFET?

11. What is a Depletion-type MOSFET?

12. What is an Enhancement-type MOSFET?

13. What are P-type MOSFETs?

14. What is a Thyristor?

Group 4: What Are The Electromagnetic Components Used In Electronic Circuits?

1. What is the relationship between Current and Magnetism?

2. What is Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction?

3. What is Lenz’ Law?

4. What are Transformers?

5. What is an Autotransformer?

6. What are some types of Transformer Losses?

7. What is an Eddy Current?

8. What is meant by the term Hysteresis Loss?

9. What is Transformer Copper Loss?

10. What are the uses of Transformers in Electronic Circuits?

11. Will Transformers pass DC Voltages?

12. What is an Isolation Transformer?

13. What is a Step-up Transformer?

14. What is a Step-down Transformer?

15. How do Transformers perform as Impedance-Matching Components?

16. How is a Transformer used for Frequency Selection?

17. How does a Relay work?

18. How do you recognize a Relay-type Circuit?

19. What types of Symbols are used for Relays?

20. What are some examples of Relay Circuits?

Group 5: What Are Transducers and How Are They Used?

1. What is the difference between an Active Transducer and a Passive Transducer?

2. What are some examples of the uses of Transducers?

3. What are some examples of Passive Transducers?

4. How are Resistive Transducers made?

5. How are Capacitive Transducers made?

6. How are Inductive Transducers made?

7. What is a Wheatstone Bridge?

8. What is the Advantage of using a Wheatstone Bridge?

9. How does an AC Bridge work?

10. What are some examples of Active Transducers?

11. How is a Piezoelectric Transducer used?

12. How is a Photoelectric Transducer used?

13. How do Microphones and Speakers work?

14. How does a Microphone work?

15. How do Speakers work?

Group 6: What Circuits Are Used in Electronic Power Supplies?

1. What is the difference between Unregulated and Regulated Power supplies?

2. What are the Components of a Regulated Power Supply?

3. What types of Circuits are used in Unregulated Power Supplies?

4. How does a Half-Wave Rectifier work?

5. How does a Full-Wave Rectifier work?

6. What is Bridge Rectifier?

7. How do Voltage Tripler work?

8. How are Rectifier Diodes connected in Series and Parallel?

9. What is a Filter Circuit?

10. What are the causes of Poor Regulation?

11. What are the types of circuits used in Power Supply Regulators?

12. What is a Sense Circuit?

13. How is a Reference Voltage obtained?

14. What is a Comparator Circuit?

15. How doe Series Regulators work?

16. How does an Electronic Regulated Power Supply work?

Group 7: What is Bias and How is it Obtained?

1. What are the Polarities of Bias Voltages?

2. How is the Output Current controlled?

3. How does Grid Voltage control Plate Current?

4. How does Bias Voltage affect Collector Current?

5. How does Bias Voltage affect Drain Current?

6. How is Bias obtained in Tube Circuits?

7. What is C Battery Bias?

8. How is Power Supply Bias obtained?

9. What is Contact Bias?

10. What is Automatic Bias?

11. What is Grid-Leak Bias?

12. What is AVC Bias?

13. How is Bias obtained in Bipolar Transistor Circuits?

14. What is Simple Bias?

15. What is Voltage-Divider Bias?

16. How are Separate Supplies used to Bias Bipolar Transistors?

17. How is AVC Bias used with Bipolar Transistors?

18. How are Field-Effect Transistors biased?

Group 8: What Are Voltage and Power Amplifiers?

1. What are the Classes of Amplifiers?

2. What is a Class A Amplifier?

3. What is a Class B Amplifier?

4. What is a Class C Amplifier?

5. What is a Class AB Amplifier?

6. How is the Class of Operation affected by types of Bias?

7. How do Typical Voltage and Power Amplifiers work?

8. What are the DC Paths for Q2?

9. What are the DC Paths for Q1?

10. What is the AC Signal Path for the Circuit?

11. How can you tell Voltage Amplifiers from Power Amplifiers?

Group 9: How Do Oscillators Work?

1. What are the Amplifier Configurations?

2. What is the Flywheel Effect?

3. What determines the Frequency of Oscillation?

4. What are examples of Sine-Wave Oscillator Circuits?

5. What is an Armstrong Oscillator?

6. What is the difference between Series-fed and Shunt-fed Circuits?

7. What is a Hartley Oscillator?

8. What is a Colpitts Oscillator?

9. What is an RC Phase-Shift Oscillator?

10. What is a Crystal Oscillator?

11. What does the Crystal do?

12. What is an example of a Crystal Oscillator Circuit?

13. How does a Relaxation Oscillator work?

14. What is an example of a Relaxation-Oscillator Circuit?

Group 10: What are Integrated Circuits and Operational Amplifiers?

1. What are Integrated Circuits?

2. What do MSI and LSI mean?

3. How are Integrated Circuits made?

4. What is the difference between a Linear and a Digital IC?

5. What is an Operational Amplifier?

6. What is Frequency Compensation in Op Amps?

7. What kind of Power Supply Circuit is used with an Op Amp?

8. How is an Op Amp used in an Amplifier Circuit?

9. What determines the Closed-Loop Gain of the Op Amp Circuit?

10. How is the Op Amp used as a Noninverting Amplifier?

11. How is an Op Amp used as a Voltage Follower?

12. What are some other types of Op Amp Circuits?

Group 11: How is Feedback used in Amplifiers?

1. How are Signals coupled from One Amplifier to Another?

2. What is RC Coupling?

3. What is High-Frequency (Peaking) Compensation?

4. What is Transformer Coupling?

5. What is Direct Coupling?

6. How is feedback used in Amplifiers?

7. How is Positive Feedback used in Amplifiers?

8. How is Negative Feedback used in Amplifiers?

9. What is Current Feedback and how is it obtained?

10. What is Voltage Feedback and how is it obtained?

11. How can Negative Feedback be avoided?

12. What is Low-Frequency Compensation?

Group 12: How Do Transmitters and Receivers Work?

1. What are the sections in a CW Transmitter?

2. What is the CW Signal?

3. What does a Modulator do?

4. What are Frequency-Domain and Time-Domain Graphs?

5. What types of Transmission are being used in Radio Systems?

6. What are the Sections of an AM Radio Transmitter?

7. What are the Sections of an FM Radio Transmitter?

8. What are the Basic Sections of a Receiver?

9. How does a Crystal Radio work?

10. What is a TRF Receiver?

11. What is an AM Superheterodyne Receiver?

12. What is an FM Superheterodyne Receiver?

Group 13: How Do Audio Systems Work?

1. What are the parts of a High-Fidelity Audio System?

2. How are Transducers used in Audio System?

3. How does a Microphone work?

4. How does a Tape Recorder work?

5. What are the parts of a Tape Head Assembly?

6. How does a Record Player work?

7. How does a Loudspeaker work?

8. How is the quality of Speaker Sound controlled?

9. What does the Tuner do in an Audio System?

10. What is special about Audio Voltage and Power Amplifiers?

11. What was Quadrophonic Sound developed?

12. What are the kinds of Quadrophonic Sound?

13. What are the variations in Tape and Disc Recording?

14. What are Some Basic Principles of Tape Recording?

15. What are Some Basic Principles of Disc Recording?

Group 14: How Do Monochrome TV Receivers Work?

1. How are Black and White Pictures converted into Electrical Signals?

2. How are Electrical Signals converted to Lighted Scenes?

3. What is Scanning and what is Synchronizing?

4. What are Fields and Frames?

5. What is the Makeup of the Monochrome Signal?

6. What are the Circuits in a Monochrome Signal?

7. What are the Circuits in a Monochrome Television Receiver?

8. What does the Flyback High-Voltage Circuit do?

9. What does the AGC Circuit do?

10. What are the TV Channel Frequencies?

Group 15: What Are The Basic Logic Circuits Used in Computers and Industrial Electronics?

1. What are some examples of Numbering Systems?

2. How do you count with Binary Numbers?

3. What are Logic Circuits?

4. What are NOT Circuits?

5. What are AND Circuits?

6. What are OR Circuits?

7. What are NOR Circuits?

8. What are NAND Circuits?

9. What are Flip Flops?