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DC basics01

Ohms Law Current

Ohm's law predicts current through an ideal linear resistor at a given voltage.

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DC basics02

Ohms Law Voltage

The voltage drop across a linear resistor follows the product of current and resistance.

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DC basics03

Ohms Law Resistance

A voltage-current pair determines the effective resistance of an ohmic component.

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Power04

DC Electrical Power

DC power is the rate of electrical energy transfer at a fixed voltage and current.

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Power05

Resistor Power from Current

Resistive heating grows with the square of current.

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Power06

Resistor Power from Voltage

A resistor exposed to a fixed voltage dissipates power inversely proportional to its resistance.

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Resistors07

Series Resistance

Resistors in a single current path add directly.

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Resistors08

Parallel Resistance

Parallel resistors share the same voltage and add their conductances.

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Resistors09

Three Parallel Resistors

Three parallel branches contribute conductance to a shared pair of nodes.

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Resistors10

Voltage Divider

An unloaded two-resistor divider sets a fraction of the input voltage at its midpoint.

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Resistors11

Divider Lower Resistor

Rearranging the divider relation finds the lower resistor for a target unloaded voltage.

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Resistors12

LED Series Resistor

A series resistor drops the supply voltage remaining after an LED's forward drop.

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Power13

LED Resistor Dissipation

The resistor dissipates the voltage it drops multiplied by the LED current.

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Resistors14

Resistance Tolerance Span

Tolerance describes the permitted deviation from a nominal resistor value.

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Capacitors15

Capacitors in Parallel

Parallel capacitors share a voltage while their stored charges add.

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Capacitors16

Capacitors in Series

Ideal series capacitors carry equal charge, giving reciprocal addition of capacitance.

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Capacitors17

Capacitor Charge

Capacitance relates stored charge to voltage across the capacitor.

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Capacitors18

Capacitor Stored Energy

Energy stored in an ideal capacitor grows with the square of voltage.

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Timing19

RC Time Constant

The RC time constant sets the speed of a first-order charging or discharging response.

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Timing20

RC Charging Voltage

A capacitor initially at zero volts approaches a fixed supply exponentially through a resistor.

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Timing21

RC Discharging Voltage

An initially charged capacitor loses voltage exponentially through an ideal resistance.

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Filters22

RC Low-Pass Cutoff

A first-order RC low-pass cutoff is the frequency where amplitude falls to one over the square root of two.

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AC basics23

Capacitive Reactance

An ideal capacitor's reactance magnitude decreases as frequency rises.

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AC basics24

Inductive Reactance

An ideal inductor's reactance magnitude increases with frequency.

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Inductors25

Inductor Stored Energy

An ideal inductor stores energy in its magnetic field.

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Inductors26

Series Inductance

Uncoupled series inductors add their inductances.

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Inductors27

Parallel Inductance

Uncoupled ideal parallel inductors combine by reciprocal addition.

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Timing28

RL Time Constant

An RL time constant sets the exponential current response in a first-order circuit.

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Filters29

LC Resonant Frequency

An ideal LC pair exchanges energy between electric and magnetic storage at its natural resonance.

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AC basics30

Series RLC Impedance

The impedance magnitude combines resistive and net reactive parts at a specified frequency.

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AC basics31

Sine RMS Voltage

A sinusoid's RMS voltage produces the same resistor heating as the equivalent DC voltage.

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AC basics32

Sine Peak Voltage

A sine-wave peak is the RMS level multiplied by the square root of two.

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Power33

AC Apparent Power

Apparent power is the product of RMS voltage and current.

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Power34

AC Real Power

Real power uses power factor to account for the relationship between voltage and current.

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Power35

Power Factor

Power factor compares real power with the RMS-based apparent power.

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Batteries36

Battery Nominal Energy

Nominal battery energy combines a rated voltage with charge capacity.

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Batteries37

Ideal Battery Runtime

A constant-power load consumes stored usable energy at a steady rate in the ideal model.

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Batteries38

Battery Capacity Conversion

Converting milliampere-hours to watt-hours makes capacities at different voltages comparable.

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Batteries39

Ideal Charge Time

A constant-current charge model estimates the time to transfer a specified amount of charge.

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Resistors40

Current Divider Branch

In two parallel resistive branches, more current takes the lower resistance path.

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Amplifiers41

Non-Inverting Amplifier Gain

An ideal non-inverting op-amp circuit sets gain through its feedback ratio.

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Amplifiers42

Inverting Amplifier Gain

An ideal inverting amplifier reverses signal polarity and scales its magnitude by a resistor ratio.

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Signals43

Voltage Gain in Decibels

An amplitude ratio maps to decibels with a factor of twenty.

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Signals44

Power Gain in Decibels

Decibels express power ratios on a logarithmic scale.

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Signals45

Decibels to Voltage Ratio

Exponentiation reverses an amplitude-gain decibel value.

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Timing46

Frequency to Period

Period and frequency are reciprocal measures of repetition.

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Timing47

PWM Duty Cycle

Duty cycle expresses the fraction of a repeating period spent high.

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Timing48

PWM Average Voltage

A zero-low-level PWM signal has an arithmetic mean set by its high level and duty fraction.

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Digital49

ADC Ideal Step Size

An ideal ADC divides a reference span into equally spaced quantization intervals.

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Digital50

ADC Ideal Code

An ideal unipolar ADC maps the input into a quantization bin.

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