Lesson Plan: Combinations of Logic Gates Physics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to determine the output of logic circuits that consist of combinations of different types of logic gates.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- evaluate the output of two or more AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, or XOR gates connected together,
- use truth tables to evaluate the output of two or more AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, or XOR gates connected together,
- identify where parts of a logic circuit can be simplified by replacing many gates with fewer gates that produce the same output.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the idea that a binary signal has two possible values: 0 and 1,
- the idea that a logic gate is a device that takes one or more binary inputs and has one binary output,
- the idea that logic gates can be drawn as part of logic circuits in much the same way that analog circuit components can be drawn as part of analog circuits,
- AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, and XOR gates.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- algebraic representations of Boolean logic,
- the material or structural design of logic gates.
