Deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistor, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive electrical components and interconnection technologies
An American inventor who pointed out that when the whole field of electronics was invented in 1883, electrical devices had already been around for at least 100 years
Also called a coil, choke, or reactor, it is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it