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Oscilloscopes have many, many uses in circuit analysis, but their main function is to show you how a circuit's voltage, or really the voltage between any two points within a circuit, changes over time.

There are tons of ways to use an oscilloscope, but they all require a couple of basic things. First of all, you need a way to attach your circuit to the oscilloscope, and this depends on how the circuit you're looking at is designed. You may be able to attach "banana plugs," coaxial cables, or BNC cables to the circuit, but if none of those are available, you may have to attach "alligator clips" to the circuit's wires themselves. Next, and hopefully the connectors you have will make this easy, you need to input this circuit connection into the oscilloscope, which usually means the other ends of your connectors have to be coaxial cables or BNC connectors.

Next, and this is an art, you need to "tune" the oscilloscope to your circuit by messing with the sensitivity controls, position controls, focus controls, and sweep controls on the oscilloscope. I'm not going to get into just how to do this, because it basically just takes practice! I will, however, attach a link below that will help you get started.

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