Multimedia tutorial on operational amplifiers, fundamentals, and applications

This paper presents a multimedia tutorial to learn operational amplifier fundamentals. This tutorial is aimed at the practicing engineer who needs to recall the theory for a quick op-amp circuit design and at the student which has never studied op-amps and needs a quick introduction to the topic. The tutorial is multimedia displaying pictures and circuit diagrams including oral explanations to speed up the learning procedure. This tutorial package is written in Visual Basic 3.0. The authors have found student response very satisfactory, especially in those students with little or no prior knowledge of the topic.