Basic Hobby Electronics Vocabulary Part 1 of 4 (A-C)

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If you’re a beginner to hobby electronics, here is a short list of the most basic terms you will encounter as you venture into your electronics hobby.

Alternating Current (AC): Current that is periodically reversing its direction of flow.

Ampere (A): The unit of measure for electric current. Commonly shortened to “amp”.

battery

Battery: A device which uses a chemical reaction to convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy.

Capacitance: A measure of the electric charge that can be stored on a conductor; the ability of such conductors to store electric charge.

Capacitor: An electrical component that introduces capacitance in electric circuits.

Conductor: A material that has low electrical resistance and can therefore efficiently allow electrical current to flow through it.

Current: A measure of the flow of electric charge passing any point of a wire per unit of time.

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