Electronics & Sensing — Diodes, Light & Infrared
Physics5 experiments
Course overview
Introduce semiconductor behavior and electronic sensing. Students explore rectification and light/IR-based detection as building blocks for smart systems.
Experiments in this course
- Diode In Simple Circuit
- Diodes As Rectifiers
- Relation Between Voltage And Light Using LDR
- IR Detection
- Object Detection
Curriculum coverage
AERO / APBritish / IGCSECBSEIBNGSSGrades 6-12
Equipment used
- 25V Voltage Sensor Module
- 3300 uf Capacitors
- 6V Battery Pack, 4x AA
- Arduino Uno
- Breadboard 400 Tie Point
- Diode
- I2C LCD
- IR Receiver Diode
- IR Sensor
- LDR
- Red LED
- Resistor
- Transformer 220VAC-12VDC