Hi,
Just wondering if there is a good reference available that gives some good mid-level explanations of what various components do and why they are needed. To give a further clarification, I understand the very basics which you would get from going through an engineering college's physic's class. So I have the base idea of resistors, volts, amps, florins, ohms law, parallel vs. series etc and the math backing such. However, as soon as you get to anything relevant starting with oh say the transistor, I'm at a complete loss. I am truly very new to this and while wiring up a led is cake for me, I really don't understand what a transistor is doing when you are hooking it up to say a motor. What I have found by browsing around thus far is either way too elementary (The transistor revolutionized electronics!) or so buried in jargon that the author assumes you already know that it becomes unreadable. PNP NPN JBT? eh? Any help for someone trying to branch out without ticking off my adviser further and taking a class outside my plan?