Circuit+assignment

===**Area of Interaction: Environments ** === ===**Significant Concepts: Basic circuits ** === ===**Unit Question: How have circuits impacted our environments? ** ===

INVESTIGATE:  Define the following: Voltage: lectrical potential or potential difference express in volts

 Current: ﻿ The part of a fluid body as air or water moving continuously in Certain direction

 Resistance: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">﻿The act or power of resisting opposing or withstanding <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The opposition offered by one thing force etc to another

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Circuit: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">﻿An act or instance of going or moving around.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Transistors: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">﻿ Electronics a semiconductor device that amplifies oscillates or switches the flow of current between one of the terminals and a third although much smaller in size than a vacuum tube it performs similar functions without requiring current to heat a cathode

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> LEDs: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Short for light emitting diode. An electronic semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. They are consider more efficient than incandescent bubls and rarely burn out

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Capacitor: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">﻿A device for accumulating and holding a charge of electricity consisting of two equally charge conducting surfaces haveing opposite signs and separated by a dielectric

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Resistor: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">A device a designed to introduce a resistance into an electric

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Switch: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">﻿ A slender flexible shoot etc used especially in whipping or disciplining

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Digital Electronics: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">﻿ The implementation of two valued logic using electronic logic gates such as and gates and flip flops

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Integrated Circuit:

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Binary Code:

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> How have circuits impacted our environment?