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Electronic components are pieces of equipment that regulate the flow of electrons in circuits. The earliest components included the Leyden jar capacitor from 1746 and vacuum diode from 1897. Transistors were developed in 1948, ushering in a new era as they did not require as much power as vacuum tubes. Integrated circuits were later developed, putting an entire circuit onto a single chip and enabling smaller electronic devices. Active components like transistors can amplify power or supply electricity, while passive components like resistors and capacitors can only receive and release electrical energy without amplification. Common components include resistors, which control current flow; transistors, which act as switches; capacitors, which store energy; diodes and LEDs, which allow current to flow

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Electronic components are pieces of equipment that regulate the flow of electrons in circuits. The earliest components included the Leyden jar capacitor from 1746 and vacuum diode from 1897. Transistors were developed in 1948, ushering in a new era as they did not require as much power as vacuum tubes. Integrated circuits were later developed, putting an entire circuit onto a single chip and enabling smaller electronic devices. Active components like transistors can amplify power or supply electricity, while passive components like resistors and capacitors can only receive and release electrical energy without amplification. Common components include resistors, which control current flow; transistors, which act as switches; capacitors, which store energy; diodes and LEDs, which allow current to flow

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H.W.

3-1:
1. What is electronic components?
An electronic component is a piece of equipment that functions by regulating the flow of electrons or
other electrically charged particles in circuits through the use of connections between electrical components
like resistors, transistors, capacitors, diodes, or integrated circuits.

2. Briefly discuss the short history of development of electronic components.


The Leyden jar, developed by Pieter van Musschenbroek at the University of Leyden (or Leiden) in
Holland in 1746, is often regarded as the very first capacitor. It was a glass jar that was completely encased
in a thin metal foil (A capacitor is a tool for short-term electric charge storage.). J.A. developed the vacuum
diode, which marked the start of the actual history of electronics. Fleming in 1897, and Lee De Forest later
used a vacuum triode to amplify electrical impulses. Due to this, tetrode and pentode tubes were developed,
which dominated the planet until World War II. After that, in 1948, the junction transistor was created,
ushering in the transistor era. The huge vacuum tube that eventually succeeded this discovery, despite the
fact that it had won the Nobel Prize, required a lot of electricity to operate. These transistors became well-
liked and widely used in many electronic circuits thanks to the usage of germanium and silicon
semiconductor materials. In the years that followed, integrated circuits (ICs) were developed. These devices
fundamentally altered the nature of electronic circuits by integrating the entire circuit onto a single chip,
leading to low-cost, small-size, and light-weight electronic devices. The development of integrated circuits
(ICs) with expanded capabilities, such as small-scale integration, medium-large scale, and very-large scale
integration ICs, between 1958 and 1975 is significant. Otis Boykin created his wire precision resistor in
1959, and two years later he refined it to be more resistant to extreme changes in temperature and pressure.
The IBM and other high-tech companies wanted it because it was less expensive and more dependable than
earlier models.

3. Differentiate active and passive components.


An active component has the ability to increase the circuit's power or supply it with electricity. The
circuit component known as the active element is solely in charge of ensuring that electric current flows
through the circuit. While a passive component cannot provide electricity or power amplification. Passive
circuit component, or simply passive component, is a circuit part that can only receive electrical energy and
release it as heat, light, or stored in either a magnetic field or an electric field.

4. Find pictures, symbols and identify common electronic components such as:
a. Resistor - is an electrical component that controls or restricts how much electrical current can pass
across a circuit in an electronic device. A specified voltage can be supplied via resistors to an active device
like a transistor.
b. Transistor - An electronic gate can be opened and closed repeatedly per second by a transistor acting
as a switch or gate for electrical impulses. It checks to see if current is flowing and turns the circuit on or off
accordingly.

c. Capacitors - are most frequently used for signal coupling and decoupling, power conditioning,
electronic noise filtering, energy storage, and remote sensing. Capacitors are employed in a variety of
industries because of their crucial and adaptable role in a variety of applications.

d. Diode and LED - Diodes are versatile electronic components that can be employed as oscillators,
voltage regulators, switches, rectifiers, signal limiters, mixers, and modulators. Electrical equipment
frequently uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a conventional source of illumination.

e. Integrated Circuits - Integrated circuits, which can be classified as analog, digital, or a hybrid of the
two, are extensively utilized in electronics design today. Amplifiers, video processors, computer memory,

switches, and microprocessors are just a few applications for ICs.

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