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  • 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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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

  1. Hook — Same Door, Different Answer
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Gates Join Together
  5. Intermediate Value — What It Is and What It Is Not
  6. Quick Check: Intermediate Values
  7. A Two-Gate Circuit
  8. Tracing a Signal (We Do)
  9. Hinge Check — Same Circuit, New Inputs
  10. A Real Circuit: The Burglar Alarm
  11. Task 1 (guided) — Input, Intermediate or Output?
  12. Task 2 (guided) — One Trace, Gate by Gate
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