Unit 1: EET 114 Review

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To get started, this first unit will review some material that you studied in EET 114, the course called Basic Electronic Measurements.

The review material from EET 114 is covered in the first four chapters of Thomas Floyd's Principles of Electric Circuits (8th edition), so you may wish to review those chapters:

• Quantities and Units (Chapter 1)
• Voltage, Current, and Resistance (Chapter 2)
• Ohm's Law (Chapter 3)
• Energy and Power (Chapter 4)

Work through the e-Lesson below.  It reviews the main points of the reading assignment, and also gives some information not found in the book. Most important of all, it contains Self-Test questions to give you practice using what you've read about. It also has links to the e-Lessons from EET 114 if you feel that you need a more thorough review.

After completing the e-Lesson, you'll be ready to take Online Quiz #1, perform Lab 1, and do Homework #1.

Unit 1 E-LESSON

For any topic below with a Self-Test icon (which looks like this ), click the icon to test your understanding of that topic. Self-Tests are for your practice only; no grades are recorded. The questions will appear in a new window. You may wish to resize this window so that you can read the questions more easily; then close the window when you're finished with the questions for that topic.

Getting Started (covered in Section 1-1 of Floyd's book)

• Unit 1 of EET 114 covered the following topics:
  • some common electronic components
  • some common electronic instruments
  • a list of electrical quantities, along with their units of measurement and symbols
  • resistors, capacitors, and inductors
  • some prefixes for large and small numbers (M, k, m, µ, n, p)
  • tolerance calculations.
• To see how well you remember these topics, take the self-test by clicking the icon below:
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• If you'd like to review this material, work through the entire e-Lesson for Unit 1 of EET 114.
• Also get some more practice with units and symbols by playing the Electrical-Units Matching Game and the Electrical-Symbols Matching Game. Each game has a Study mode that reviews the theory, a Practice mode that lets you practice with no time pressure, and a Challenge mode that tests your skill while the clock is running. If you're fast, you may even get your name on the high-score board!

More Basics (covered in Sections 1-2 through 1-4 of Floyd's book)

• Unit 2 of EET 114 covered the following topics:
  • scientific notation and engineering notation
  • resistor color codes, capacitor codes, and inductor codes
  • connecting components in series
  • connecting components in parallel.
• To see how well you remember these topics, take the following self-test:
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• If you'd like to review this material, work through the entire e-Lesson for Unit 2 of EET 114.
• Also get some more practice by playing the following games:
  • Metric-Prefix Matching Game
  • Color-Code Matching Game
  • Resistor Identification Game
  • Capacitor Identification Game.

Voltage, Current, and Resistance (Sections 2-1 through 2-5 of Floyd's book)

• Unit 3 of EET 114 covered the following topics:
  • conductors, insulators, and semiconductors
  • charge, voltage, current, and resistance
  • resistor coding systems
  • fixed versus variable resistors
  • significant digits and rounding.
• To see how well you remember these topics, take the following self-test:
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• If you'd like to review this material, work through the entire e-Lesson for Unit 3 of EET 114.

Electric Circuits (Sections 2-6 through 2-8 of Floyd's book)

• Unit 4 of EET 114 covered the following topics:
  • electric circuits
  • series connections and parallel connections
  • series circuits and parallel circuits
  • measuring voltage, current, and resistance
  • electrical safety.
• To see how well you remember these topics, take the following self-test:
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• If you'd like to review this material, work through the entire e-Lesson for Unit 4 of EET 114.
• Also get some practice with the multimeter by playing Multimeter Challenge.

Ohm's Law (Chapter 3 of Floyd's book)

• Unit 5 of EET 114 covered the following topics:
  • Ohm's law
  • estimation
  • series-parallel circuits.
• To see how well you remember these topics, take the following self-test:
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• If you'd like to review this material, work through the entire e-Lesson for Unit 5 of EET 114.

Energy and Power (Chapter 4 of Floyd's book)

• Unit 6 of EET 114 covered the following topics:
  • energy and power
  • resistor power ratings
  • power supplies and efficiency.
• To see how well you remember these topics, take the following self-test:
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• If you'd like to review this material, work through the entire e-Lesson for Unit 6 of EET 114.

Unit 1 Review

• To finish the e-Lesson, take this self-test to check your understanding of these topics.
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Congratulations! You've completed the e-Lesson for this unit. What's next?

• Under Online Quizzes on the course menu (at the left-hand edge of the screen), take the Practice Quiz to see how the quiz tool works, and then take Online Quiz #1.
• Perform Lab 1 and turn in a typed short lab report. Read my instructions on how to write Short Lab Reports.
• Do Homework #1.
• For more practice with this material, visit the textbook's Chapter 4 web page and take the multiple-choice, true/false, circuit-analysis, and fill-in-the-blank quizzes provided there.
• Keep practicing your skills by playing the games on the Games page.

Then you'll be ready to go on to Unit 2.

Nick Reeder | Electronics Engineering Technology | Sinclair Community College

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