The baseball analogy fills in some of the gaps that the water analogy lacks=
 (for me).  I keep finding little tid bits in all my "study" and ran across=
 this in The Art of Electronics:

//Quote
Important: Always refer to voltage *between* two points or across two point=
s in a circuit.  Always refer to current *through* a device or connection i=
n a circuit.

To say something like "the voltage through a resistor ..." is nonsense, or =
worse.  However, we do frequently speak of the voltage *at a point* in a ci=
rcuit. This is always understood to mean voltage between that point and "gr=
ound," a common point in the circuit that everyone seems to know about.

I guess that the real details come with experience.  As long as I can get a=
 working knowledge of how capacitors, resistors, coils, diodes, transistors=
, and thyristors _work together_ I think the rest will come easy. =20

//EndQuote


I have also a few books I've collected over the years.  At the moment I nee=
d to get to the point where I can really understand them in a practical way=
..  (By building something. :-)  )

Forrest Mimm's "Getting Started in Electronics" and "Circuit Scrapbook Volu=
me 1"
Boylestad's "Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory" and "Introductory Circu=
it Analysis"
"The Art of Electronics"
Wayne Tomasi "Electronic Communications Systems"  (Don't remember where I p=
icked that up, and I doubt I'll ever use it)
Then "Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics" and "Practical Electronic=
s for Inventors"

Lindy

P.S. I worked with computers for 25 years and it wasn't until I did the Nan=
d 2 Teteris did I really understand how a CPU worked.  I always wanted to. =
 Now I've gotten around to it.  So now I'm getting back around to learning =
electronics. (And building stuff)
________________________________________
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] on behalf of YES NO=
PE9 [yes@nope9.com]
Sent: 26 November 2013 11:05
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.

It really, really helps to visualize electrons as though they are flowing t=
hrough wires the same way water particles flow through a pipe.  Increase th=
e voltage/pressure and you increase the number of electrons/water particles=
 that flow through the pipe each second.  That rate of flow for electrons i=
s amperage.


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