Semester 1 Final Flashcards
Capacitor
An electrical device used to store electrical charge
Dual In-Line Package
A very common IC package with two parallel rows of pins intended to be inserted into a socket of through holes drilled in a printed circuit board
Printed Circuit Board
Insulating board containing conductive tracks for circuit connections.
Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
A square IC package with leads on all four side designed for surface mounting on a circuit board
Resistor
Component made of material that opposes flow of current and therefore has some value of resistance.
Small Outline IC
An IC package similar to a DIP, but smaller, which is designed for automatic placement and soldering one the surface of a circuit board
Analog
A way of representing some physical quantity, such as temp or velocity, by a proportional continuous voltage or current.
Amplitude
The instantaneous voltage of a waveform
Breadboard
A circuit board for wiring temporary circuits
Conductor
Any material that allows the free movement of electrical charges to provide an electric current
Conventional Current
The direction of current flow positive to negative
Current
A movement of electrical charges around a closed path or circuit
Digital
A way of representing a physical quantity by a series of binary numbers
Digital Waveform
A series of logic 1s and 0s plotted as a function of time
Duty Cycle
Fraction of the total period that a digital waveform is in the high state.
Electron
Basic particle of negative charge in orbit; around the nucleus in an atom
Electron Flow
Direction from negative to positive
Frequency
The number of cycles per unit time of a periodic waveform
Hertz
Unit of frequency
Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
The algebraic sum of all voltages around any closed path must equal zero
Kirchhoff’s Current Law
The algebraic sum of all currents into and out of any branch point in a circuit must equal zero
Ohms
Unit of resistance
Ohm’s Law
In electric circuits, I=V/R.
Parallel Circuit
One that has two or more branches for separate current from one voltage source