Its nice to see people still look at explaining the more intuitive approach. I was stuck with learning electronics for ages because of the water pressure analogy, and needing to break out the Maxwell equations. Ironically, many books published prior to 1980 follow
the intuitive approach for quite a lot of subjects, compared to now that has you memorize equations that you don't know what or how they came about. The only reason I progressed past is from reading Heaviside's lectures from the turn of the century.
The local charity that sells books can be a goldmine.
Long time IT guy, but my in-the-weeds electronics knowledge is sorely lacking! Loving both the introductory articles and the more advanced stuff, even when I'm struggling to understand it 😏 Passing along your links and compliments over at BlueSky as well.
Its nice to see people still look at explaining the more intuitive approach. I was stuck with learning electronics for ages because of the water pressure analogy, and needing to break out the Maxwell equations. Ironically, many books published prior to 1980 follow
the intuitive approach for quite a lot of subjects, compared to now that has you memorize equations that you don't know what or how they came about. The only reason I progressed past is from reading Heaviside's lectures from the turn of the century.
The local charity that sells books can be a goldmine.
Minor nit that hung me up for a moment. I'm thinking you might have a surplus number of the word 'travel' in the description of current:
"[...] is defined as the travel of travel about 6.24 × 1018 elementary charges per second"
Thank you for this! Heads up the math formulas seem to be a bit messed up/wonky for me.
> In most circumstances, it’s what would cause a current to flow if you dropped a metal wrench across.
Also what are you referring to in this description of voltage? A wrench across what? Sorry I know this might be a dumb question.
Long time IT guy, but my in-the-weeds electronics knowledge is sorely lacking! Loving both the introductory articles and the more advanced stuff, even when I'm struggling to understand it 😏 Passing along your links and compliments over at BlueSky as well.
Thanks for your concise write up's
There is also the neat reactance set of formulas.