diff --git a/.zk/notebook.db b/.zk/notebook.db index 4273189..fa4b79e 100644 Binary files a/.zk/notebook.db and b/.zk/notebook.db differ diff --git a/zk/Breadboards.md b/zk/Breadboards.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fa6f5e --- /dev/null +++ b/zk/Breadboards.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +id: jbf1 +title: Breadboards +tags: [electronics] +created: Sunday, June 23, 2024 +--- + +# Breadboards + +## Contact pins + +- Beneath the plastic casing, the contact holes are connected to one another + making a continuous circuit connection + +## Terminal strips + +The holes in the middle portion. They are connected in groups of five and +comprise two groups separated by the ditch. The terminal strips are not +connected accross the ditch thus each of the two strips are electrically +separate. + +## Related notes diff --git a/zk/Circuits.md b/zk/Circuits.md deleted file mode 100644 index e70918e..0000000 --- a/zk/Circuits.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - electricity - - electronics ---- - -# Circuits - -An electrical circuit is a set of electrical components connected in such a way -that current flows in a loop from a voltage source, through the circuit elements -and back to the voltage source. - -Below is a basic circuit representing a 9-volt -[battery](Cells_and_batteries.md#cells-and-batteries) -with a 10,000$\Omega$ -[resistor](Resistance.md) attached -accross its terminals. Through the application of -[Ohm's Law](Ohms_Law.md) we can -determine that the maximum current will be 0.9 miliamps. - -![](/img/basic-circuit.png) - -## Open and short circuits - -A circuit with a break in its loop is called an **open circuit**. When a circuit -is open, no current flows. We can induce an open circuit through the use of a -switch component that closes and breaks the circuit when invoked. - -A **short circuit** is a path in a circuit that allows current to flow with -little or no resistance. This is usually unintentional and results in excessive -current flowing through the circuit. A short circuit is the opposite to an open -circuit. With an open circuit there is an infinite resistance between the two -terminals. - -## Vertical circuit diagrams - -Sometimes circuits can be represented in a vertical manner rather than in an -actual circuit. This is done to simplify the representation. In this approach -current is represented as flowing in a straight line from the voltage source -(represented with a circle) to ground. - -The circuit below is functionally identical to the previous circuit but -represented vertically: - -![](/img/vertical-circuit.png) diff --git a/zk/Digital_circuits.md b/zk/Digital_circuits.md deleted file mode 100644 index 818928a..0000000 --- a/zk/Digital_circuits.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - electronics ---- - -# Digital circuits - -Ultimately every process in a computer is the product of a digital -[circuit](Circuits.md) that is -working on binary values. In contrast to electrical circuits, digital circuits -are not represented in an -[analogue](Analogue_and_digital.md) fashion. - -Analogue circuits work on the basis of real continuous phenomena in the world: -charges and currents. As a result, the key properties of a circuit - voltage, -current and resistance - can vary over a wide range of values. This is the -reason that we require components like batteries and resistors: to control the -natural flow of current and ensure that it only runs within desired parameters. - -In a standard electrical circuit, voltage, current and resistance can vary over -a wide range of values however in the binary context we want to deal with -discrete values (zeros and ones) which can be fed into the various -[logic gates](Logic_gates.md). - -We therefore need a way to represent 'on' and 'off' as single quantities. We do -this by stipulating that a given voltage corresponds to 'on' (high) and another -corresponds to 'off' (low). Of course these are not really discrete values since -voltage is inherently analogue but we basically binary-encode them. Formally -'on' has a voltage of 1 and 'off' has a voltage of 0. In reality 'on' tends to -be within 2-5V depending on the circuit design and anything between 0 - 0.8V is -considered off. - -The [transistor](Transistors.md) is -the electrical component that enables us to represent given voltage ranges as -being 'on' or 'off'.