1. Direct Current, Voltage, and Resistance Measurements
1.1. Digital Voltmeters and Multimeters
1.2. Loading Errors in Voltage Measurements
1.3. Loading Errors in Current Measurements
2. Alternating Current Circuits
2.1. Sinusoidal Signals
2.2. Reactance in Electrical Circuits
2.3. Capacitors and Capacitance: Series RC Circuits
2.3.1. Rate of Current Change in an RC Ciruit
2.3.2. Rate of Voltage Change in an RC Circuiut
2.3.3. Phase Relations between Current and Voltage in RC Circuit
2.4. Response of Series RC Circuits to Sinusoidal Inputs
2.4.1. Phase Changes in Capacitive Circuits
2.4.2. Capacitive Reactance
2.4.3. Impedance in a Series RC Circuit
2.5. Filters Based on RC Ciruits
2.5.1. High-Pass Filters
2.5.2. Low-Pass Filters
2.6. The Response of RC Circuits to Pulse Inputs
2.7. Alternating Current Voltage and Impedance Measurements
3. Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices
3.1. Properties of Silicon and Germanium Semiconductors
3.2. Semiconductor Diodes
3.2.1. Properties of a pn junction
3.2.2. Current-Voltage Curves for Semiconductor Diodes
3.3. Transistors
3.3.1. Bipolar Junction Transistors
3.3.2. Mechanism of Amplification with a BJT
3.3.3. Field-Effect Transistors
4. Laws of Electricity
4.1. Ohm's Law
4.1.1. V=IR
4.2. Kirchhoff's Laws
4.2.1. Kirchhoff's Current Law
4.2.1.1. The algebraic sum of currents at any point in the circuit is zero.
4.2.2. Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
4.2.2.1. The algebraic sum of the voltages around a closed conducting path, or loop, is zero
4.3. Power Law
4.3.1. P=IV
5. Direct-Current Circuits
5.1. Series Circuit
5.1.1. Resistors are in series when they only have one contact between them
5.1.2. Rs=R1+R2+R3+...
5.2. Voltage Divider
5.2.1. Resistors in series form this in that a fraction of the total voltage appears across each resistor
5.3. Parallel Circuits
5.3.1. 1/Rp=1/R1+1/R2+1/R3+...
5.3.2. Resistors are parallel when they are a part of a loop.
5.4. Current Splitters
5.4.1. Resistors in parallel form this instead of a voltage divider, also known as a current divider.