The Theory Behind Electronics - A Beginners Guide (Udemy.com)
Start your Journey in Electronics with a Solid Background - Current, Voltage, Resistance and Power
Created by: Wonder Ripple
Last updated June 2025
What you will learn
- Understand the R, L, C building blocks of analog electronics
- Calculate Voltage, Current and Power and understand the relation between them
- Understand the properties of DC and AC power supply
- Understand the applications of Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Diodes and Transistors
- Analyze basic electronic circuit
- Select the right components in future project
- Document circuits is a software tool
- Develop ideas using a mind mapping software
How it compares
Against the other 335 rated Udemy courses in Engineering on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 74% of them
- Reviews1,287#70 of 336 by number of reviews
- Length3.7 hoursshorter than 63% of them
- Last updatedJune 2025more recently than 63% of them
Course Description
***** Feedback from Students *******
"I love this course. It truly is an amazing subject and the instructor gives great explanations on how electronics works. It amazes me how electronics are used every day and most people have no clue as to how they work." Joseph C.
"Excellent coverage of the fundamentals. Thanks!", Kevin O'Reilly.
"For years I have wanted someone to explain the basics of electronics to me, and this course does just that, in clear, small focused chapters. I really recommend this to anyone that wants to learn the fundamentals of electronics." Paul Cockrell.
"This is fantastic. So well organized and presented so clearly! I feel like I'm learning very quickly. I even understand voltage and amperage which other people have explained to me many times but I never "got" without a visual analogy. Thank you for this wonderful class, I highly recommend it!." Cjay Roughgarden.
"Excellent course for beginners and intermediate electronics. I am in my first year of EET in college and this has been a great supplement to my initial courses. I hope you put out some more advanced Electronics courses later on. You do an excellent job of putting everything into terms that are relatable. Thanks" David M.
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Electricity is all around us, it is some hidden energy force driving many applications we all use in our daily life. The theory behind electricity is based on some amazing phenomenon in nature and some of several materials properties that were discovered by great scientists. Electronics is a theory developed around the useful applications of electricity. So, the first thing that we can say about electricity is that it is a really interesting subject!
Today, electronic is becoming much more friendly hobby for many people worldwide that would like to easily combine hardware and software and do things by themselves, the prices of electric components are dropping, easy to use development platforms were created (e.g. Arduino) and it is very easy to collaborate and learn the subject in a few mouse clicks.
The Internet of Things is also an emerging driving force for innovators looking to build things using electronics and harness the power horse of the web technologies to create new products, services or just cool projects!
This course is a starting point, to learn the basic building blocks of electronics with step by step education program, easy to follow chapters, simple circuits’ demonstrations, quizzes to evaluate your understanding and review the key things to remember using a mind mapping template.
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Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,287 Reviews
Wonder Ripple
Welcome to Wonder Ripple.
We create engaging learning experiences that help people understand how to delegate real work to AI and get more done.
Our courses focus on practical AI-powered workflows that can support everyday work, business, productivity, research, planning, and decision-making. We turn emerging AI capabilities into clear, useful skills through simple explanations, practical examples, and step-by-step applications.
Wonder Ripple was founded by a group of engineers who believe that powerful technology should be understandable, approachable, and genuinely useful. Our approach combines structured thinking, practical problem-solving, and curiosity about how AI can change the way people work.
Every course is designed to help you move beyond simply talking to AI and start using it to research, organize, monitor, prepare, coordinate, and complete real-world tasks.
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Reviews
By Ronnie Brasel on 9/12/2024
I completed the course and appreciated the professor's method to learn the basics of electronics. At first, I had difficulty understanding the professor, but his method of instruction greatly assisted in my learning. Honestly, I am glad that I took this course because it made me research the information and do some math examples. That added context and substance which assisted in learning the material.
By Hans Karlsson on 3/19/2024
Only watched a few videos. Accent can be a bit hard to understand at times, but the subtitles seem to be correct and not just autogenerated, so they help a bit. Have found some minor errors in the material, but important or relevant to a degree that it matters. Using an old simulator software in few places that's not available anymore. CircuitJS does the job though, so it's a good alternative. I'm learning some new stuff I didn't know before, so there's that, but the course is very theory oriented.
By Thomas Walker-Jones on 2/18/2023
Really enjoyed the course as it describes and demonstrates the uses of the various simple components within an electronic circuit. The course was easy to understand and the learning technique was good. Slight negatives was that I feel that the semi-conductor stages needed a bit more discussion/examples of their use, also some of the English text/wording was a little off - but certainly completely understandable. Thank you to the tutor for providing an enjoyable introduction to electronics.
By Nancy Thomas on 2/22/2022
This is well done. I appreciate that the sections are broken down with plenty of information given on each section. After each section descriptions of how they all go together is addressed. Slides are interesting and easy to follow. I am taking the class just to get a basic understanding of 'how things work', names of the components and some general knowledge of what goes on. It is helping me with that. I find it interesting and wish I knew more:) After finishing this course I would like to add that he did a fantastic job with his summaries after each section. I plan on taking more classes to help me understand some of the basics. I also appreciate that I can download the zip file and print for later review which I hope I do! Thank you.
By Michael Liedlgruber on 6/1/2021
Not very detailed, but considering the length of the course, this is something one simply can not expect. But the course is structured very well and the basic principles of electronics are presened in a very nice and clear way. So all in all this is a very nice course, especialls for beginners.
By James McBride on 11/7/2020
Good beginner's overview. Easy to understand and well presented.
By Daniel Henriksson on 9/1/2020
Very easy to understand.
By Simon Lord on 7/14/2020
I knew a little bit but this has reinforced my knowledge. There were a couple of things that I didn't fully understand but I can find out more about those topics another time.
By Paul Pate on 7/10/2020
I believe I will get a lot from this course
By MIKE Oakleaf on 7/5/2020
Easy to understand
By hariprasad n on 6/9/2020
Yes the course is going as expected starting with very basics.
By Jasvant S Sohanpaul on 6/1/2020
clearly explained well thought out.
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