As a reminder, I first opened this can of worms with my original series of "The Beginner’s Guide to Electronics: TOOLS—What to Buy First" columns (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4). These “Tools ...
Even in this digital age, a number of measurement and instrumentation applications rely on the accuracy of the value of one or more resistors. To guarantee the performance of the system, the designer ...
Capacitors, resistors, inductors, connectors, and even the printed-circuit board (PCB) are called passive because they don’t have gain or control power like semiconductors or other active devices (see ...