It is hard to get very far into electronics without knowing Ohm’s law. Named after [Georg Ohm] it describes current and voltage relationships in linear circuits. However, there are two laws that are ...

Fig. 1 As I wrote in the Jan. 1 issue of Radio World, a German physicist named Georg Ohm published a paper in 1827 that described the interaction between voltage ...

While working engineers were designing hardware for production, a large controversy erupted regarding the validity of Kirchhoff’s law. The controversy sprang up when Mehdi Sadadhgar posted this ...

What Kirchhoff’s “thermal law” is and why it’s important. How researchers have determined that the law breaks down in some circumstances. Why others disagree with those findings. Engineers of all ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The inventors of the transistor-laser —a transistor withboth optical and electrical outputs—claim it fits perfectly within thesemiconductor migration path to integrated optics. That ...

This popular article was originally published in the Jan. 16, 2019, issue of Radio World and Jan. 24, here at the website. Understanding electronics and electronic troubleshooting starts with knowing ...