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Acceptors
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Amperes (Amps)
Analog
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Anode
Atoms
Avalanche Breakdown
Band gap
Bandwidth
Battery
Capacitance
Capacitor
Cathode
Charge
Charge Carriers
Comparator
Conduction band
Conductor
Control System
Coulomb
Current
Current source
Depletion Region (Space Charge Region)
Differentiator
Diffusion
Digital
Digital Potentiometer
Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
Diode
Diode Q-Point
Direct Current
Distortion
Donors
Doped
Drift
Drift Velocity
Efficiency
Electricity
Electron
Extrinsic
Forward Biased
Free electrons
High-impedance
Holes
Imaginary numbers
Impedance
Inductance
Inductor
Input Bias Current
Insulator
Integrator
Intrinsic
Intrinsic semiconductor
IV Curve (VI Curve)
Metallurgical Junction
Mobility
Molecule
N-well
Neutron
Nucleus
Offset Voltage
Ohm's Law
Open loop
Operational Amplifiers (Op-amps)
P-well
Plant (Control Systems)
PN Junction
Potentiometer
Power Supply
Proton
Rail-to-Rail
Resistance
Resistivity
Resistor
Reverse Biased
Rheostat
Semiconductor
Slew Rate
Static electricity
Summing Amplifier
Trimmer
Turn-on Voltage
Undoped
Valence band
Volt-amp reactive (VAR)
Voltage
Voltage Follower
Voltage source
Watt
Zener Breakdown

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The movement of electrons due to an electromotive force. This movement is called current and the electromotive force is called voltage.

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Dynamic electricity is the effect of voltage in producing current in conductors. Static electricity is accumulation of charge.

Grob’s Basic Electronics, 11th Edition by Mitchel E. Schultz

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