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Year 10 Electronics

Course Description

Head of Faculty - Kaihautuu: Ms M. Vale.

Year 10 Electronics is an introductory course for people interested in Electronics and who may wish to pursue further training and employment in this area and/or related electrical engineering/electrician fields. Students will gain an understanding of fundamental electrical concepts to explain the behaviour and use of electronic circuits. Students will learn how to solder circuits both effectively and safely. Students will build circuits on prototype boards and transferring them on to Vero boards. They will learn the application of the above in the real world via a range of practical activities, experiments and demonstrations.

Course Overview

Semester A
1. Safe effective soldering techniques (soldering sculptures competition).
2. Basic ideas of electricity (introduction to Ohm’s Law, parallel and series circuits, conductors and semiconductors)
3. Ability to design and build basic analogue circuits (e.g. water detectors, burglar alarms)
4. Introduction to use of transistors (switches and amplifiers)
5. Introduction to capacitors (use as time delays)
6. Use of 555 chips as timers