Welcome to Introduction to Electronics. I'm Dr. Robinson. In this lesson I wanted to give
you a quick overview of things to come in this course. Now there's really no need for
me to motivate electronics to you. You couldn't be watching this
video without electronics and electronic devices. And you wouldn't have available to you all
the technology that you use every day. Now, the particular devices that
we are going to study in this course are the diode, the transistor and
the operational amplifier. The diode and transistor, can truly be considered
to be fundamental electronic devices. While the op amp is a more
complicated device, that's composed of the more
fundamental devices. Now as we proceed through the course
we will study the operation of these electronic devices. And we will also study particular
application circuits which use the devices to achieve
some functionality. And you can consider these application
circuits to be building blocks which can be combined together to form
more complicated circuits. Now we begin this course with a review
of topics from linear circuits. We then move to a module on operational
amplifiers followed by one on diodes and we conclude with a module on transistors. Now at the end of this course you
should understand the operation of these fundamental devices. And you will have available to you
techniques that you can use to analyze more complicated circuits. And overall this course will
give you a good foundation for the further study of electronics. So, thank you for taking this course,
I hope you enjoy it. And I will see you in future lessons.