|
Chapter 4: Layer 1 -
Electronics and Signals
Outline:
| Chapter
Review |
|
| Chapter
Overview
|
|
| 4.1 |
Basics of Electricity
| 4.1.1 |
A helium atom |
| 4.1.2 |
Creating
stable atoms |
| 4.1.3 |
Static
electricity |
| 4.1.4 |
Electrical
current including insulators, conductors, and semiconductors |
| 4.1.5 |
Electrical
measurement terms |
| 4.1.6 |
Analogy for
voltage, resistance, and current |
| 4.1.7 |
Graphing AC
and DC voltage |
| 4.1.8 |
Constructing
a simple series electrical current |
| 4.1.9 |
Purpose of
grounding networking equipment |
|
|
| 4.2 |
Basics of Digital
Multimeters
| 4.2.1 |
Safe handling
and use of the multimeter |
| 4.2.2 |
Using a
multimeter to make resistance measurements |
| 4.2.3 |
Using a
multimeter to make voltage measurements |
| 4.2.4 |
Measuring
simple series circuit |
| 4.2.5 |
Constructing
a simple electrical communication system |
|
|
| 4.3 |
Basics of Signals and Noise
in Communications Systems
| 4.3.1 |
Comparing
analog and digital signals |
| 4.3.2 |
Using analog signals to build
digital signals |
| 4.3.3 |
Representing
one bit on a physical medium |
| 4.3.4 |
Network
signal propagation |
| 4.3.5 |
Network
attenuation |
| 4.3.6 |
Network
reflection |
| 4.3.7 |
Noise |
| 4.3.8 |
Dispersion,
jitter, and latency |
| 4.3.9 |
Collision |
| 4.3.10 |
Messages in
terms of bits |
|
|
| 4.4 |
Basics of Encoding
Networking Signals
| 4.4.1 |
Historical
examples of encoding |
| 4.4.2 |
Modulation
and encoding |
|
|
| Chapter Summary
|
|
|
Chapter Quiz
|
|
|