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Lesson 1
Term | Definition | Example |
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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 |