Basic Laws and Circuits
This law states that the algebraic sum of all currents entering and leaving a junction equals zero.
What is Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL)?
This temporary prototyping tool uses internal metal strips to connect components without soldering.
What is a Breadboard?
The condition where an AND gate's output is Logic HIGH (1).
What is when all inputs are HIGH?
This category of logic circuit includes flip-flops, counters, and registers, and uses a clock input.
What is Sequential Logic?
The name for the prefix k used to denote a multiplier of 10^3.
What is kilo?
The total current is the sum of the branch currents, but the voltage is the same across all components.
What is a Parallel Circuit?
A chemical used in soldering to clean metal surfaces and allow the solder to bond properly.
What is Solder Flux?
The chart that lists all possible input combinations and the corresponding output for a logic circuit.
What is a Truth Table?
In this 555 Timer mode, the chip generates a continuous train of square waves (oscillation).
What is Astable Mode?
A fire extinguisher that uses a nonconductive agent (like CO2) and is suitable for electrical fires.
What is a Class C fire extinguisher?
This rule, used for complex circuits, states that the algebraic sum of all voltages around a closed loop equals zero.
What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)?
The color code Brown-Green-Red corresponds to this resistance value.
What is 1.5 kOhm or 1500 Ohm?
Logic circuits whose output depends only on the current inputs and have no memory.
What is Combinational Logic?
This device is an edge-triggered memory element used to store a single bit (1 or 0).
What is a D Flip-Flop?
The standard notation for expressing the voltage 68,100 V with an exponent that is a multiple of 3.
What is Engineering Notation?
If resistance (R) is increased while voltage (V) is constant, this quantity decreases proportionally.
What is Current (I)?
An unwanted connection created by excess solder that causes a short circuit between adjacent conductors.
What is a Solder Bridge?
This gate produces a Logic HIGH (1) only if the inputs are different from each other.
What is the XOR (Exclusive-OR) gate?
This widely used IC can be configured in monostable mode to produce a single, timed pulse.
What is the 555 Timer?
The current 0.054 A written using an SI prefix.
What is 54 mA (milliamperes)?
The path of current flow from positive to negative, opposite to the direction of electron flow.
What is Conventional Current Flow?
This component, measured in Farads (F), is primarily used for filtering, timing, and storing electrical charge.
What is a Capacitor?
The only condition under which a two-input NOR gate's output will be Logic HIGH (1).
What is when both inputs are Logic LOW (0)?
The specific moment when the input data (D) is transferred to the output (Q) of an edge-triggered D Flip-Flop.
What is the Clock’s Rising Edge?
The number 469,200,000 written in this notation is 4.692 x 10^8
What is Scientific Notation?