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The Complete Basic Electricity & Electronics Course (Udemy.com)

Learn how Electricity, Electronic Components and Circuits work. Join over 5,000 happy students!

Created by: Fabrizio Guerrieri

Last updated November 2020

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What you will learn

  • Understand the concept of electric Voltage and Current
  • Understand how the most important electronic components work
  • Analyze and design basic electronic circuit

How it compares

Against the other 335 rated Udemy courses in Engineering on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 39% of them
  • Reviews3,157#24 of 336 by number of reviews
  • Length6.5 hourslonger than 60% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2020earlier than 77% of them

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Course Description

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

Knowledge of Electricity and Electronics is extremely valuable nowadays!

Electronic circuits are everywhere, from computers and smartphones, to home appliances and cars. Think of all the everyday objects that are becoming “smart”... in the future, most of the things that we own will contain some electronics. Jobs in electronics are in high demand and well paid in almost every country!

Building electronic products is incredibly rewarding, whether you do it professionally or just as a hobby. There is just something different and exciting about designing something physical that can be hold in one’s hand and that interacts with the outside world, and today it has become incredibly easy to get started thanks to cheap development boards such as the Arduino and Raspberry Pi, combined with the right knowledge.

Differently than what happens in other disciplines, knowledge of Electronics does not become obsolete, but it is always current as it is intimately connected to physics and to the fundamental laws of nature. Hence, while new components and chips might come along every year, the fundamental principles of Electronics always stay the same.


WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS COURSE?

While most of the material and courses available online tend to be high-level and focused on applications (for instance, it shows students how to connect components on a breadboard to create a circuit), the goal of this course is to explain the fundamental concepts of Electricity and Electronics, to allow you to fully understand how circuits work. Every topic is addressed starting from the first principles of the underlying physics and fundamental laws, and only later the acquired knowledge is used to explain how to design more complex circuits for different applications.


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

  • Fundamental concepts of Electricity (Current, Energy, Voltage, Power)

  • Most important electronic components (Resistor, Capacitors, Diodes, etc)

  • The main laws governing currents and voltages in circuits (Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, etc)

  • Interface with Microcontrollers (coming soon)


ANY PREREQUISITE?

This is an introductory course about the theory of Electricity and Electronics, so no previous knowledge is required. To get the best out of the lessons, students should be comfortable with some basic arithmetic as I will often write and solve equations, in particular when analyzing simple circuits. Understanding a bit of physics can help too, but it is not required. Most importantly, no special hardware or software is required.

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Instructor Details

Fabrizio Guerrieri

Hi! I'm Fabrizio. I'm an Electrical Engineer based in Silicon Valley. I have years of experience with hardware product development, circuit board design and, above all, a passion for Electronics and Technology. During my Doctorate I "served" as Teaching Assistant, teaching basic electronics to students in different majors, one of the best experiences of my life!

Since well before I went to High School, I have always loved breaking things apart, understanding how products work and designing my own electronic projects. At the time there were not many resources available for intrepid young Makers such as myself... while today there is a plethora of tools available and it is so much easier to get started!

Building your own electronic circuit is incredibly rewarding, and I encourage everyone to give it a try. If you are curious about electronics, want to design circuits and really understand how things work, then my courses are for you. Unlike most of the material you can find online which simply teaches you how to put things together, my courses are comprehensive and complete, covering both fundamentals (physics, equations, analysis) as well as applications.

I genuinely believe that my courses are the best on the market and I hope you love them too! Sign up to my courses and join me in this amazing adventure today.

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Reviews

4.4

3,157 ratings on Udemy

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By Carlos Diaz on 2/11/2025

First off, I am somewhat of a newbie with respect to the subject matter. I'm taking this course to prep for some later courses. That being said, I find the instructor to be super knowledgeable. However, his handwriting is moderately bad and he has a fairly thick accent. I am regularly finding myself trying to figure out what character he is intending to write. Both together make the course somewhat more challenging than it would otherwise be without those 2 "issues".

By Stuart Ansley on 11/29/2023

You're gonna learn a lot from this course, but it is not easy. This course has a lot of very good info but it is very difficult for a beginner and someone who is not strong in math. The instructor clearly knows a huge amount about the subject but doesn't always explain clearly and goes far too quickly without explaining from time to time. You can learn a lot but you have to work hard and research outside of the course. Abbreviations and Greek Letters are not always explained, so you should have a cheat sheet for that. Simplifying and rearranging fractions and ratios is not explained so you will be confused by that if you are not good with fractions like I am. The instructor will sometimes do the math work without showing how and only provide the result in an effort to simplify the lecture, but for someone like me without a strong math background I had to rewatch certain lectures several times to understand. You need to know the difference between milli, micro, nano, and pico, and how to do algebra with numbers that small. Having said all that, you will get a very complete understanding of how voltage, resistors, capacitors, and diodes work, with very good examples of what they physically do, which really helped me a lot. I would take this course again, but be prepared to watch a few YouTube videos to supplement the many confusing parts.

By Axel Fernando Bastida Gastelum on 8/13/2021

Definitly the best Course in this platform about basic Electricity & Electronics Course, its just so easy to understand the teacher and have some basic and easy exercises that actually makes you understand the fullest of the Course, i cannot recommend this course enough, i really hope he makes another for Digital Circuits or improves this one even more to cover that area, a must buy to understand tha basics my people, i really feel like my hole year of Electricity & Magnetism and Electricity Applied has been resumed in 6.5 hours, TAKE NOTES and resolve the exercises, this is so easily explained it will stick in your brain forever, guaranteed

By Cesar Morales on 3/25/2021

in general several translations don't match with the speech spoken, in some videos there are issues in concepts spoken, then, an alert appears with the correct concept but it's difficult to follow it my suggestion is record the video again with correct terms either translation and spoken speech some exercises in quiz or lesson have not calculations details, therefore it's hard to infere and solve them. i coincide with other comments and it's a little bit hard to understand you in certain terms/phrases

By Naren KDC on 11/21/2020

The examples used in first section could have been made simple by using electrons motion instead of positive charge motion

By WilliamAllen on 11/14/2020

it has been the most trilling experience of my life. I cant wait to go back and do it again.

By Macovei Nicolae Drago on 11/14/2020

poor explainations, basic examples and dificult quizz

By Thomas Harrell on 11/1/2020

yes but is not enough to make a rating yet

By Alexander Burns on 10/24/2020

The lessons aren't granular enough. I'm finding I have to use outside resources to fill in the gaps in training.

By Miguel Carlos Rodriguez on 10/23/2020

Some times feels fast paced.

By Velmurugan Kala on 10/23/2020

Well done & useful

By Alireza Efatian on 10/21/2020

I have problem undrestanding the teacher. He could talk more slowly and more consiouc

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Overall Score : 88 / 100