Basic Hobby Electronics Vocabulary Part 1 of 4 (A-C)
If you’re a beginner to hobby electronics, here is a short list of the most basic terms you will encounter as you venture into your electronics hobby.
Alternating Current (AC): Current that is periodically reversing its direction of flow.
Ampere (A): The unit of measure for electric current. Commonly shortened to “amp”.
Battery: A device which uses a chemical reaction to convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy.
Capacitance: A measure of the electric charge that can be stored on a conductor; the ability of such conductors to store electric charge.
Capacitor: An electrical component that introduces capacitance in electric circuits.
Conductor: A material that has low electrical resistance and can therefore efficiently allow electrical current to flow through it.
Current: A measure of the flow of electric charge passing any point of a wire per unit of time.
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