All Things Beautiful: High School Electronics with Lab

If you are looking for an electronics course for your high school student, there is one on the Internet for free! It is called Lessons in Electric Circuits by Tony R. Kupphaldt and was written to be suitable for high school or college credit. It is in six volumes:

Volume I covers basic DC electric circuit concepts and components

Chapter 1: BASIC CONCEPTS OF ELECTRICITY
Chapter 2: OHM'S LAW
Chapter 3: ELECTRICAL SAFETY
Chapter 4: SCIENTIFIC NOTATION AND METRIC PREFIXES
Chapter 5: SERIES AND PARALLEL CIRCUITS
Chapter 6: DIVIDER CIRCUITS AND KIRCHHOFF'S LAWS
Chapter 7: SERIES-PARALLEL COMBINATION CIRCUITS
Chapter 8: DC METERING CIRCUITS
Chapter 9: ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTATION SIGNALS
Chapter 10: DC NETWORK ANALYSIS
Chapter 11: BATTERIES AND POWER SYSTEMS
Chapter 12: THE PHYSICS OF CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
Chapter 13: CAPACITORS
Chapter 14: MAGNETISM AND ELECTROMAGNETISM
Chapter 15: INDUCTORS
Chapter 16: RC AND L/R TIME CONSTANTS

Volume II covers AC circuits, including filters, transformers and motors

Chapter 1: BASIC AC THEORY
Chapter 2: COMPLEX NUMBERS
Chapter 3: REACTANCE AND IMPEDANCE -- INDUCTIVE
Chapter 4: REACTANCE AND IMPEDANCE -- CAPACITIVE
Chapter 5: REACTANCE AND IMPEDANCE -- R, L, AND C
Chapter 6: RESONANCE
Chapter 7: MIXED-FREQUENCY AC SIGNALS
Chapter 8: FILTERS
Chapter 9: TRANSFORMERS
Chapter 10: POLYPHASE AC CIRCUITS
Chapter 11: POWER FACTOR
Chapter 12: AC METERING CIRCUITS
Chapter 13: AC MOTORS
Chapter 14: TRANSMISSION LINES

Volume III covers semiconductors and solid state devices

Chapter 1: AMPLIFIERS AND ACTIVE DEVICES
Chapter 2: SOLID-STATE DEVICE THEORY
Chapter 3: DIODES AND RECTIFIERS
Chapter 4: BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTORS
Chapter 5: JUNCTION FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 6: INSULATED-GATE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 7: THYRISTORS
Chapter 8: OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS
Chapter 9: PRACTICAL ANALOG SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUITS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 10: ACTIVE FILTERS ***PENDING***
Chapter 11: DC MOTOR DRIVES ***PENDING***
Chapter 12: INVERTERS AND AC MOTOR DRIVES ***PENDING***
Chapter 13: ELECTRON TUBES

Volume IV covers digital computing- logic gates, switches and digital communication

Chapter 1: NUMERATION SYSTEMS
Chapter 2: BINARY ARITHMETIC
Chapter 3: LOGIC GATES
Chapter 4: SWITCHES
Chapter 5: ELECTROMECHANICAL RELAYS
Chapter 6: LADDER LOGIC
Chapter 7: BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
Chapter 8: KARNAUGH MAPPING
Chapter 9: COMBINATIONAL LOGIC FUNCTIONS
Chapter 10: MULTIVIBRATORS
Chapter 11: SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 12: SHIFT REGISTERS
Chapter 13: DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERSION
Chapter 14: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Chapter 15: DIGITAL STORAGE (MEMORY)
Chapter 16: PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL COMPUTING

Volume V is the reference materials

Chapter 1: USEFUL EQUATIONS AND CONVERSION FACTORS
Chapter 2: COLOR CODES
Chapter 3: CONDUCTOR AND INSULATOR TABLES
Chapter 4: ALGEBRA REFERENCE
Chapter 5: TRIGONOMETRY REFERENCE
Chapter 6: CALCULUS REFERENCE
Chapter 7: USING THE SPICE CIRCUIT SIMULATION PROGRAM
Chapter 8: TROUBLESHOOTING -- THEORY AND PRACTICE
Chapter 9: CIRCUIT SCHEMATIC SYMBOLS
Chapter 10: PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS

Volume VI is the Lab with all the experiments that are needed to complete the course

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: BASIC CONCEPTS AND TEST EQUIPMENT
Chapter 3: DC CIRCUITS
Chapter 4: AC CIRCUITS
Chapter 5: DISCRETE SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUITS
Chapter 6: ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Chapter 7: DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Chapter 8: 555 TIMER CIRCUITS

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