Publisher's Synopsis
ScienceWiz® Online Discovery Electronics, Voltage, Current & Resistance: Would you like to build your own LIE DETECTOR? With ScienceWiz® Electronics - you do exactly that. First, there are few basic concepts to learn.
The kit includes both a multimeter and all the electronic components needed to build multiple circuits. The Online Discovery version of ScienceWiz Electronics includes a flip-book that guides you through each project visually and includes embedded animations, videos and interactive simulations.
With Electronics you go from making potato batteries and voltage piles to building your first electronic circuits. You begin by using a multimeter:
- to measure the voltages of batteries, new and used
- to measure the current in potato batteries connected in series and parallel
- to determine the value of the resistor used to protect an LED from being fried by a nine volt battery.
- to solve circuit puzzles
- to use as a continuity tester.
In so doing, you are preparing to build and more importantly debug actual circuits.
Then on to building your first electronic circuits:
- a touch sensor,
- a simple oscillator that flickers an LED,
- light-blinking circuits
- and finally, of course, a LIE DETECTOR.
This book introduces the curious of all ages to a fundamental set of concepts and skills necessary for not only building electronic circuits but also for building and repairing robots, household wiring and even electric vehicles. The list of applications is very long, indeed.
The online flip-book contains short video clips about the peculiar men, including Galvani, Volta and Faraday, whose work brought us into the modern era. Through determined effort and fortuitous accident, they went beyond the momentary sparks of static electricity. They produced sustained electrical current with the invention of the first batteries and later with the generating of electrical current without the need for any batteries at all. Discover how a frog's leg and Frankenstein are a part of their stories.
Includes a handle box for easy storage and transport, a multimeter, components necessary to build each electronic circuit, a buzzer, a motor, test leads, alligator clips, a nine volt battery cap, a bread board and zero ohm resistors to use as connecting wires on the breadboard.
