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The current organisation is this:

LearnElectronics:Forward

1. Aim of book

2. Prerequisites:

3. Materials

LearnElectronics:Chapter1 The Basics

1.Basic Thoery

2.Open/Closed/Short Circuit

3.Circuit Diagrams

LearnElectronics:Chapter2 Hands On experience

1.Understanding the Parts

2.Assembly and Math

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Maybe it would be better organised like this (my comments follow the -):

LearnElectronics:Forward

1. Aim of book - hands on tutorial, could rename book to Hands on electronics? No AC electronics, all DC?
2. Prerequisites - introductory high school mathematics.
3. Materials - Chapter 1, battery and holder, wire, light bulb and holder; Chapter 2 onward, multimeter (cheap), resistors; and Chapter 3? onward, breadboard, etc.

LearnElectronics:Chapter1 Circuits

1. Materials - battery and holder, wire, 3 identical light bulb and holders (describe briefly what each of the items do (i.e., the battery stores energy, etc.).
2. Building my first circuit - connecting the battery to the light bulb, show the circuit diagram.
3. How does it work - use the fluid flow analogy to begin with (i.e., electricity behaves as if it's a fluid flowing through a pipe and the battery is a tank, etc.; a closed circuit).
4. Open circuits - what happens to the flow when the pipe is disconnected (electrons don't easily flow through air).
5. Short circuit - with little resistance to flow a large amount of fluid flows (i.e., a large current flows).
6. Series and parallel connection - two bulbs in parallel in series with one more, describe why splitting the current through the two bulbs reduces their brightness (reintroduce the idea of resistance, narrowing of the tube)

LearnElectronics:Chapter2 Resistors

1. Materials - as Chapter 1, but add the multimeter (describe how to measure battery voltage) and high wattage resistors (or use some some nichrome wire?; show circuit symbol).
2. Voltage drop - connect in series with light bulb and observe drop in brightness, measure with multimeter.
3. Ohms law - describe how to measure resistance, then calculate current from voltage drop, do an experiment to check.
4. A couple more experiments here...

== LearnElectronics:Chapter3 Capacitors == - no AC measurements?

1. Materials
2. Charging and Discharging
3. More...

== LearnElectronics:Chapter4 Inductors == - no AC measurements?

1. Materials... - make a spark too?

LearnElectronics:Chapter5 Diodes

== LearnElectronics:Chapter6 Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) == - no AC measurements?

== LearnElectronics:Chapter7 Field effect transistors (FETs) == - no AC measurements?

== LearnElectronics:Chapter8 Operational Amplifiers == - really need to do AC measurements to do properly

== LearnElectronics:Chapter9 Digital electronics == - that's a big one