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Series 12IntermediateElectronics

Circuit Intuitions

One circuit idea per Short: Thévenin shortcuts, charge sharing, op-amp limits, memory cells. Each starts from a claim that sounds wrong and ends with the computed reason it is right.

Episodes

What this series covers

40 episodes made so far, 32 of them published. A tick marks the ones already on YouTube.

  1. 01Looking into a Node✓ published
  2. 02Looking Into Two Nodes✓ published
  3. 03Miller's Approximation✓ published
  4. 04The Electrical Length of a Wire✓ published
  5. 05Source Degeneration✓ published
  6. 06Capacitor as a Resistor✓ published
  7. 07Why Sinusoids✓ published
  8. 08Undo the Wire✓ published
  9. 09Undo the Resistor✓ published
  10. 10Turn the Knob✓ published
  11. 11AC Coupling and Baseline Wander✓ published
  12. 12Bandwidth Extension✓ published
  13. 13Thévenin and Norton, Part 1✓ published
  14. 14Voltage Follower, Part 1✓ published
  15. 15Negative Resistance✓ published
  16. 16Tellegen's Theorem✓ published
  17. 17Random Walk in a Ring✓ published
  18. 18Chopper Amplifier✓ published
  19. 19Voltage Follower, Part II: the flip✓ published
  20. 20Voltage Follower, Part II: two stages in disguise✓ published
  21. 21Voltage Follower, Part II: wider, then steeper✓ published
  22. 22Thévenin and Norton, Part 2: you could tell by touching it✓ published
  23. 23Source transformation✓ published
  24. 24Thévenin and Norton, Part 2: which form to pick✓ published
  25. 25The source follower is a source transformation✓ published
  26. 26An RC circuit does not average✓ published
  27. 27Charging a capacitor always wastes half✓ published
  28. 28A resistive divider is only as efficient as its ratio✓ published
  29. 29Why your source follower stops following✓ published
  30. 30Why your voltage follower is fast up and slow down✓ published
  31. 31You found the voltage. Now you can't trust the resistance.✓ published
  32. 32Close the switch. Half the energy is gone. Where did it go?✓ published
  33. 33Zero resistance. Half the energy still vanishes.
  34. 34This amplifier wants ZERO input resistance. Why?
  35. 35How do you cancel an error nobody measured?
  36. 36This resistor is making noise. Nothing is connected.
  37. 37The noise on a capacitor ignores the resistor. Why?
  38. 38Copy your amplifier once. Distortion drops from 13% to 5%. Why?
  39. 39One resistor took distortion from 5% to 0.2%. What did it cost?
  40. 40Every time your laptop reads its memory, it destroys it

Watch them on the Electronics 101 YouTube channel. Episodes without a tick are finished and queued for release.

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Modules
6
Certificate
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Price
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