Electronics Quantities Vocab I

Alternating Current

• Increase in voltage, current and/or power.

• The flow of electric charge that periodically reverses polarity.

• is the unidirectional flow of an electric charge.

• Term used to designate electrical pressure or force that causes current to flow.

Product of resistance and capacitance in seconds.

• scientific notation

• rectification

• coulomb

• RC time constant

bias

• A DC voltage applied to a device to control its operation.

• Information represented as continuously varying values.

• Total resistance of all the individual resistances in a circuit.

• Increase in voltage, current and/or power.

Measured in ohms it is the total opposition to the flow of current offered by a circuit.

• ohm

• resistance

• impedance

• voltage drop

capacitance

• is the flow of electrons through a conductor.

• The ability of a capacitor to store an electrical charge.

• Related to static electric charge.

• Quantity of electrical energy.

Ω

• impedance

• gain

• charge

• ohm

digital

• Relating to devices or circuits that have outputs of only two discrete levels.

• Process that converts alternating current to direct current.

• The basic unit of capacitance.

• Information represented as continuously varying values.

Related to static electric charge.

• digital

• electrostatic

• capacitance

• ampere

American Wire Gauge

• The ability of a capacitor to store an electrical charge.

• a standardized system for the diameters of round wire

• Increase in voltage, current and/or power.

• Product of resistance and capacitance in seconds.

A charge that has more electrons than protons

• potential difference

• rectification

• negative charge

• impedance