Electricity Basics, Explained Visually
How current, voltage, circuits, motors and relays really work.
- Trades
- Beginner
- English
- 12 videos · 2.5 h
- Updated Mar 2026
Videos by The Engineering Mindset · 50.9L views on this playlist
About this course
Short animated explainers from The Engineering Mindset that make electricity visible: current, voltage, Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits, diodes, inductors, batteries, motors and relays. A good first course before any wiring work.
What you'll be able to do
- 1Explain current, voltage and resistance with Ohm's law
- 2Tell series circuits from parallel ones
- 3Describe how motors, diodes and relays work
Videos
Start with video 1 →MODULE 1Videos 1–66 lessons · 64 min
- How ELECTRICITY works - working principle10 min
- Electrical Current Explained - AC DC, fuses, circuit breakers, multimeter, GFCI, ampere19 min
- Voltage Explained - What is Voltage? Basic electricity potential difference11 min
- Ohms Law Explained - The basics circuit theory10 min
- Conventional Current v Electron Flow - Electricity explained3 min
- DC Series circuits explained - The basics working principle11 min
MODULE 2Videos 7–126 lessons · 87 min
- DC parallel circuits explained - The basics how parallel circuits work working principle16 min
- Diodes Explained - The basics how diodes work working principle pn junction12 min
- Inductors Explained - The basics how inductors work working principle10 min
- How Batteries Work - Battery electricity working principle19 min
- How does an Electric Motor work? DC Motor explained16 min
- How Relays Work - Basic working principle electronics engineering electrician amp14 min
Printable cheat sheet: outcomes and the video checklist
These are the first 12 of 43 videos. Continue the full playlist on YouTube
- Before you start
- None
- Accessibility
- YouTube captions where the creator provides them · Keyboard-accessible player · Notes and bookmarks
Where these videos come from
Every lesson plays the original video from The Engineering Mindset with YouTube's own player, so views and credit stay with the creator. We picked this playlist because it's complete, in order, and recently updated. SkillSpring adds progress tracking, notes, bookmarks and focus mode around it.
Playlist: “Electrical Engineering Basics” · 43 videos · last updated Mar 2026. Open on YouTube