Chapter 1 Introduction
Electronic devices surround us. Computers, phones, televisions, watches, cars, building wiring, and many other examples all rely on electricity. All of these applications ultimately rely on energy from electricity, and this electricity must be controlled using circuits comprising wires, resistors, capacitors, and many other components.
This text serves as a survey of electronics principles and design. While you will not learn to build a smartphone in this text, you will instead learn about the fundamental building blocks of electronic circuits. Focus will be placed on how electronic components work, both alone and in tandem, as we learn the rules that govern the behavior of circuit elements. While we will occasionally delve into the physical principles underlying the behavior of circuit elements, such topics are more appropriate for a course in undergraduate electrodynamics. So, while we will not focus much on the physics principles behind electronic components, we will instead focus on the rules governing circuit design and behavior.
