Pieces & Parts of a circuit
This is defined as a junction of two or more branches
What is a node?
This network can be described as a cascaded set of series-parallel combinations that has the appearance of a ladder.
What is a ladder network?
This law is involved in the mesh or loop analysis method.
What is Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL)?
The following equation: R1xR2/R1+R2 is suitable for use in determining the resistance total for 2 of these components connected in.. ?
What is parallel?
Inductance is measured in this particular unit.
What is a henry?
What type of component looks like an open circuit to DC current once it's charged to it's final value?
What is a capacitor?
In this type of a circuit, voltage can be read, but current will be zero.
What is an open circuit?
This theorem permits the reduction of any two-terminal linear DC network to one having a single voltage source and a series resistor
What is Thevenin's theorem?
1/CT = 1/C1 + 1/C2 + 1/C3 is the equation used to find three capacitors in ___________.
What is series?
Capacitance is measured in this particular unit.
What is a farad?
This type of component can be described as coils of various dimensions designed to introduce specified amounts of inductance into a circuit.
What is an inductor?
This type of circuit is composed of resistors and inductors driven by a voltage or current source.
What is an R-L circuit?
This law is involved in the nodal analysis method.
What is Kirchhoff's current law (KCL)?
LT= L1xL2/L1+L2 is the equation used to find two inductors connected in _____________.
What is parallel?
This equation: Τ=L/R which is expressed in seconds is the mathematical expression for a __________ __________ in an inductor circuit.
What is a time constant?
This type of source determines the current in the branch of a circuit in which it is located. It also indicates a direction.
What is a current source?
This network is popular when the detection of small changes in quantity is required (i.e. strain guage/load cell or thermistor applications).
What is a Wheatstone bridge?
The current through or voltage across any element in a network is equal to the algebraic sum of the currents or voltages produced independently by each source (more than one source) describes this theorem.
What is Superposition theorem?
In this type of circuit, current flows in only one path and is the same at any point in the circuit.
What is a series circuit?
An inductor stores energy in this type of a field.
What is a magnetic or electromagnetic field?
This part of a circuit is often used interchangeably with the term "reference" which isn't always a good practice.
What is a ground or ground connection?
In this type of circuit, you will find a low or no resistance connection between conductors or from a conductor to ground that will allow current to flow in an unintended path resulting in an excessive amount of current to flow.
What is a short circuit?
This law states that an induced effect is always such as to oppose the cause that produced it.
What is Lenz's law?
In this type of circuit, voltage is equal across all components in the circuit as there are two sets of electrically common points.
What is a parallel circuit?
In a bridge circuit, when the ratio: R1/R3=R2/R4 is satisfied and I = 0 through the balance arm (middle resistor in the bridge), the bridge is said to be _______________.
What is balanced?