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Essential Ideas in Electronics: Resistance
This article, from Electronics Education, is aimed at giving guidance to teachers and takes an in depth examination of resistance and conduction. It is also linked with an earlier article Essential Ideas in Electronics: Current.
The article describes:
* conductors and resistors
* atoms, electrons, charges and current flow
* resistivity and resistance
* Ohm's law
* resistors as components in a circuit
* introduction to semiconductors
The article is linked with a similar one looking at current which can be found at Essential Ideas in Electronics: Current.
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