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Lesson 1
| Term | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Breadboard | A circuit board for wiring temporary circuits | |
| Conventional Current | The direction of current flow associated with positive charge in motion. | |
| Current | A movement of electrical charges around a closed path | |
| Digital | a way of representing a physical quantity by a series of binary numbers. | |
| Digital Multi-Meter | a piece of test equitation used to measure voltage, current and resistence | |
| Engineering Notation | A floating point system in which numbers are expressed as products consisting of a number greater than one multiplied by an appropriate power of ten that is some multiple of three | |
| Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL) | The algebraic sum of all currents into and out of any branch point in a circuit must equal zero | |
| Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL) | The algebraic sum of all voltages around any closed path must equal zero | |
| LED | Light emitting diode | |
| Ohm | Unit of resistance | |
| Ohm's Law | in electric circuits I=V/R | |
| Parallel Circuit | one that has 2 or more branches for separate current | |
| Resistence | opposition current | |
| Resistor Color Code | coding system of colored stripes on a resistor to indicate the resistor value and tolerance | |
| Scientific Notation | numbers entered as a number from one to ten multiplied by a power of ten | |
| Series Circuit | one that has only | |
| SI Notation | ||
| Solder | ||
| Soldering | ||
| Soldering Iron | ||
| Analog |