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Old 09-20-2007, 12:49 PM
m_the0ry m_the0ry is offline
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Default Re: Electrical Circuits

I am an electrical engineer so I can probably answer any questions you have, but like others have said it helps to be more specific.

If this is an introductory electronics class, a very helpful abstraction is to think of electric current as water flow. A voltage is a 'potential drop' so you can consider a drop in voltage the same as going from high ground to low ground, and current is the water flow for a 'tube' connecting the high and low ground.

This is a useful and intuitive way of thinking of electricity in your basic passive component electronics classes. Again nobody here is going to want to type out a whole textbook, so more specific questions are needed.
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