Electronic Components and Simple Circuits
A Step-by-Step Guide to Electricity, Ohm's Law and Circuit DesignBy Owen Tregaskis
Length11h 23m
About this audiobook
An illustrated beginner's guide to electronic components and simple circuits, covering electricity, Ohm's law, resistors, capacitors, inductors, AC, diodes, transistors, op-amps, power supplies and practical building and fault-finding.
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GenreTechnology
Length11 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Preface
3About This Book
4Chapter 1: What Electricity Is Doing
51.1 Charge, Current and the Three Things You Can Measure
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61.2 Conventional Current and Electron Flow
71.3 Voltage, EMF and the Idea of a Circuit
81.4 Conductors, Insulators and Semiconductors
91.5 Static Charge, Damage and Safe Bench Habits
101.6 A First Circuit You Can Build and Measure
11Chapter 2: Ohm’s Law and Power
122.1 Ohm’s Law in All Three Arrangements
132.2 Resistors in Series and Parallel
142.3 Power Dissipation and Choosing a Wattage
152.4 Voltage Dividers and the Arithmetic of Ratios
162.5 Worked Practice Set with Answers
17Chapter 3: Resistors
183.1 What a Resistor Is and How It Is Made
193.2 The Color Code and Tolerance Bands
203.3 Preferred Values and What to Do When Your Answer Is Not One
213.4 Potentiometers, Trimmers and Variable Resistance
223.5 Thermistors and Light-Dependent Resistors
233.6 The Voltage Divider in Practice
24Chapter 4: Predicting a Circuit Before You Measure It
254.1 Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
264.2 Kirchhoff’s Current Law and Node Voltages
274.3 The Loaded Divider and Why Your Reading Sags
284.4 Thevenin Equivalent Thinking
294.5 Estimating Currents and Voltages in Your Head
304.6 Prediction Against Measurement
31Chapter 5: Capacitors
325.1 Capacitance and How Capacitors Are Built
335.2 Working Voltage, Polarity and Reading the Markings
345.3 Series and Parallel Combination
355.4 Charge and Discharge Curves
365.5 The RC Time Constant and Simple Timing
375.6 Decoupling, Coupling and the Jobs Capacitors Really Do
38Chapter 6: Inductors and Transformers
396.1 Coils, Magnetic Fields and Inductance
406.2 Back-EMF and Flyback Protection
416.3 Mutual Inductance and the Transformer
426.4 Isolation and Why It Matters
436.5 Choosing and Using a Small Transformer
44Chapter 7: Alternating Current
457.1 Waveforms, Frequency and Period
467.2 Peak, Peak-to-Peak and RMS Values
477.3 Capacitive and Inductive Reactance
487.4 Impedance and Phase
497.5 Simple High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters
507.6 Resonance in a Simple LC Circuit
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