Electronics For Dummies
Chapter One
From Electrons to Electronics
In This Chapter
* Understanding the role of electrons, conductors, and voltage
* Looking at how electricity is generated
* Exploring some electronic components
* Connecting components together in circuits
* Introducing a few tools of the electronics trade
* Breaking it all down into units
* Understanding Ohm's Law
When you plug in the coffee maker in the morning, you're using electricity.
When you flip on the TV to watch a rerun of Sex in the City, you're
using electricity again (for better or worse).
You use electricity and electronics devices all the time, and you've finally
worked up enough curiosity to want to tinker with electronic gadgets yourself.
That's great. But before you can jump into playing with wires and batteries, it
helps to understand what puts the elec in electricity and electronics.
In this chapter, you discover all about how electrons make electricity and how
harnessing that electricity is the basis of electronics. You also get an introduction
to some of the tools and parts that you can play with in the electronics
projects in Chapters 14 and 15.
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