Building Circuits
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- 12 questions
- 35 marks
- about 40 minutes
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Question types: multi-part, truth table, multiple choice, fill the gap, true or false.
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In a circuit, the output of one gate is fed in as an input to the next gate. What is this in-between value called?
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About this resource
Logic & Circuits (Lesson 3 of 6): combine two gates into one circuit, trace a signal gate by gate using intermediate values, then build and test the burglar alarm — Alarm = (Door AND Armed) OR Panic — in Logic Lab.
16 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook — Same Door, Different Answer
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- Gates Join Together
- Intermediate Value — What It Is and What It Is Not
- Quick Check: Intermediate Values
- A Two-Gate Circuit
- Tracing a Signal (We Do)
- Hinge Check — Same Circuit, New Inputs
- A Real Circuit: The Burglar Alarm
- Task 1 (guided) — Input, Intermediate or Output?
- Task 2 (guided) — One Trace, Gate by Gate
Unit bundleLogic
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