Topics for Presentation or Discussion
08/11/2001
Topics
- Understanding Transistor Circuits – Using basic DC to simplify transistor action
- Understanding dB's – From 0db to infinity (without those scary formulas!)
- A really simple way to do Scientific and Engineering Notation, that always give you the right answer – Don't think about "moving decimal points"
- A realistic approach to quickly estimating parallel resistor circuits – How to GUESS really close, without using a calculator (within less than 5% error)
- An understandable approach to reactance, impedance, and phase angles – Like, what's REAL and what's IMAGINARY?
- Impedance Matching – What do we really mean when we refer to "Impedance Matching"?
- Characteristic Impedance, or Source Impedance of Coax or Transmission Lines – So just what is meant by the "Characteristic or Surge Impedance" of a length of coax?
- A unique approach to Digital Gates and Circuits that really works! – Nicknames that work, without a lot of memorization
- In Morse Code, everyone tells you that you should learn to copy behind. Here’s how! – In fact, you don’t have to know Morse Code to learn this.
- Resistor Color Code in 18 minutes! – Throw those color wheels away (or give them to your enemies)
- Breadboarding techniques, and what’s actually needed – Inexpensive to not-so-inexpensive
- What really goes on inside microprocessors (and the really big computers too) – From the very simplest CPU to the most complicated in the world
- What is a computer operating system, and how does it work? DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, Win-9x, etc. - … and, just what is a "Driver", and where does it fit in or apply?
Thoughts to consider
- Process
- A series of acts or changes, proceeding from one to the next.
- Procedure
- An act or manner of proceeding, a prescribed way of doing something, as in a legal procedure. A particular course of action.
- Technique
- The entire body of procedures and methods of a science, art or craft, skill in these procedures and methods. A way of achieving a purpose.