Basic Electricity & Electronics for Beginners from Zero

Basic Electricity & Electronics for Beginners from Zero

Published 10/2026
Created by Omar Koryakin
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + subtitle | Duration: 48 Lectures ( 12h 54m ) | Size: 14.5 GB

Learn voltage, current, circuits, home safety, your power bill and electronics step by step with real-life examples

What you’ll learn
– 1. Explain charge, current, voltage and resistance in plain words, and say why a light comes on instantly even though electrons crawl
– 2. Use Ohm’s law and the power formula to work out the current, voltage, resistance or watts of anything from a torch bulb to a kettle
– 3. Predict what happens in series and parallel circuits, including a bulb removed or a short circuit, and explain why homes are wired in parallel
– 4. Measure voltage, current and resistance safely with a multimeter, and solve small circuits with Kirchhoff’s rules and the voltage divider
– 5. Read an electricity bill line by line, tell kilowatts from kilowatt hours, and find which appliances really cost you money
– 6. Explain live, neutral and earth, choose the right fuse for a plug, and say what a circuit breaker and an RCD each protect
– 7. Read resistor colour codes and design simple electronics: an LED with the right resistor, a capacitor timer and a light-sensing night light
– 8. Explain magnets, motors, generators, AC, transformers, the power grid, phone chargers, solar panels and electric car charging with real numbers

Requirements
– 1. Everyday arithmetic: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing
– 2. A calculator (the one on your phone is fine), plus paper and a pen for the practice problems
– 3. No electricity, physics or algebra knowledge needed; the course teaches everything it uses
– 4. No equipment needed; a cheap multimeter and a few batteries are a nice extra, never required
– 5. Willingness to pause the video and try each short problem before watching the answer

Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Electricity runs almost everything you touch, yet you can’t see it, so most of us never really understand it. Why does a light come on the instant you flip the switch, when the electrons in the wire creep along slower than a snail? Why does the heater cost so much more than the lights? What is the fuse in a plug really for, and what does the RCD in your fuse box do when it trips? This course answers all of it from zero, one small step at a time.

You’ll follow Maya through an ordinary year in her small, all-electric flat. Her first winter electricity bill has just arrived at $136.40, more than twice her summer bill, and she has no idea why. Her younger brother Leo is building his first electronics projects on a little desk he calls his bench, working towards an automatic night light for the school science fair. Every lesson starts with a moment from their lives, or from yours, and ends back there with real numbers you’ve worked out yourself. If you took my Physics for Beginners course, you’ll recognise Maya and Leo, and this is the next chapter of their story. If you didn’t, that’s completely fine, because everything this course borrows from physics is taught again here from the very beginning.

The teaching is calm and picture-first on purpose. You watch electrons drift round a circuit, bulbs glow exactly as brightly as the numbers say, meters read real values, fields turn in three dimensions and Maya’s bill build itself line by line. Each new device appears first as the real thing, then an X-ray view shows the hidden wires, charges or fields inside it. Every lesson explains why before how, walks through a worked example slowly, then pauses so you can try a similar problem yourself before we check it together, including the slip most people make and how to catch it.

Here’s the path. You start with charge, static and lightning, then current, voltage and resistance. Next come Ohm’s law, power and heat, then series and parallel circuits, measuring with a multimeter and solving small circuits. After that you’ll read your electricity bill, find what really costs money at home and see why a heat pump saves so much. Then you’ll explore live, neutral and earth, fuses, circuit breakers, the RCD and why electric shock is dangerous, followed by electronics basics: resistor codes, diodes, LEDs, capacitors and a light sensor. The final sections cover magnets, motors and generators, alternating current, transformers, the power grid, phone chargers, solar panels and electric cars, and the last lesson puts everything together on Maya’s whole electric year.

All you need is everyday arithmetic and the calculator on your phone. Every word, symbol and unit is explained the first time it appears, and the course teaches the one small piece of algebra it uses right when you need it. It teaches understanding, not installation work: nothing here asks you to touch mains wiring, Leo’s projects only ever use batteries or a small USB supply, and any work on the fixed wiring in a home belongs to a qualified electrician who follows your local rules.

This course is for you if you want to finally understand your home, your fuse box and your power bill, if you’re meeting circuits in science or physics at school or college, if you’re heading towards an electrical trade or an engineering course and want a calm foundation first, or if you’d like to build your first LED circuit and know exactly why it works.

Who this course is for
-1. Complete beginners who want to finally understand the electricity in their home
-2. Homeowners and renters who want to understand their power bill, their fuse box and home safety
-3. High school and college students meeting circuits in science, physics or electronics
-4. Future electricians, technicians and engineers who want a calm, clear foundation before they start
-5. Hobbyists and makers who want to start electronics with the theory explained properly
-6. Parents and tutors helping a teenager with circuits and electricity homework
-7. Students of the Physics for Beginners course who want to carry on with Maya and Leo

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