COMPONENTS

Breadboard Breadboards as shown in Figure…. are one of the most fundamental pieces when learning how to build circuits. These “solder-less” breadboards [1] are great units for making temporary circuits and prototyping, and they require absolutely no soldering [2]. Another common use of breadboards is testing out new parts, such as Integrated circuits (ICs). The […]

The Inductor, also called a choke, is another passive type electrical component designed to take advantage of the principle that a current carrying coil has a magnetic flux developed across it, whose magnitude is directly proportional to the amount of current, (direction given by Fleming’s Left Hand rule). It induces a voltage into the coil

Capacitor The Capacitor, also known as a Condenser, is also a passive component just like a resistance. It stores its energy in the form of an electrostatic field producing a potential difference (static voltage) across its plates. It consists of two conductive plates which are not connected but are electrically separated by an insulating material

Resistor A resistor (shown in Fig.1) is a block of material that limits the flow of current. The greater the resistance, the lower the current will be. The size of the resistor increases with an increase in power or wattage rating. Resistors either belong to fixed type or variable type group. Fixed Resistors include moulded-carbon

Basic Electronic Components An integrated circuit have many electronic components for example resistors, inductors, transistors etc. embedded on a single chip. We can classify these components into passive and active as shown in Table 1. In order to make an electronic circuit suitably work, requires not only proper selection of the active elements but also