If you can teach the circuit back in plain language, you understand it. If you cannot, you have memorised where the parts go.
Recognising a job is not the same as understanding it, and the difference only shows when somebody asks. On a licence, in an interview, and on the day something goes wrong, the question is always explain this.
Three questions, and the second one catches everybody. Naming parts is memory. Describing the path the current is meant to take -- out of the source, through the switch, through the load, back -- requires the thing to make sense as a system. And the third, how you checked it, is where the whole of this course shows up: verified, or assumed?
Check yourself: You built it correctly and it works. Do you understand it?
Answer: Not established. Teach the circuit back in plain language before assuming you understand it.
Working is evidence that the connections are right. Understanding is being able to say why each part is there and where the current goes, and a circuit can work perfectly while the person who built it cannot do that.
No card. No account needed to start. Score by topic against the 70% mark.
Written from the owner's poster for this lesson. Nothing added beyond what the poster states.
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