A phone, a laptop, a charger and a digital thermometer all do different jobs, but they rely on many of the same electronic building blocks. Resistors control currents and voltages. Capacitors and ...

This text offers concise, accurate explanations of hundreds of topics over the full spectrum of modern electronics and provides useful information on subjects from basic components and building block ...

For electricity to flow, everything needs to be connected in a big ring. It’s called a circuit. For example, the lights in most houses and flats are part of a circuit controlled by the consumer unit, ...

Circuit protection devices are used to protect electronic components from unwanted transients such as current and voltage surges, electrostatic discharge (ESD), lightning, spikes and other signals ...

There are two groups of classic circuits: those which have served us well in the past, but have been superseded by better designs, and those which are still in use, perhaps with updated components. In ...