Transistor: Introduction, importance and history

Introduction:

The name “Transistor” has come from the two words “Transfer” and “Resistance”. Which then were combined into “Trans-resistance” and after that it was contracted to name as “Transistor”. From its origin words “transfer of resistance”, its process comes. Which is that the current passes from the low resistance portion to the high resistance portion for amplification.

                                                       

Definition:  

“Transistor is a semiconductor device which is used to do the switching and amplifying of electronic signals.”

Means if you want to do switching in electric circuit like, to stop the flow of current at a point at particular condition then transistor is the best you got. Or if you want to amplify your input signal like if you want to increase the loudness of input voice then transistor can do this. These are the main uses of Transistor.

 History:

Before Transistor there was Vacuum tube which was the main or important component of electronic devices. But it was big in size have low efficiency, more heat up, high power consumption, required high voltages and current, and have complexity in circuits. Then there were ideas of Field effect transistor started to come in 1905. And then in 1947 John Bardeen and Walter Brattain and William Shockley (Group leader) invented the first complete transistor named as “point contact transistor”.  And then the first commercially available transistor came in 1960s.

Importance of Transistor:

Honestly! I will say in electric area the most useful thing we have now a days is transistor. Transistor is the building block of all the electric devices. We are getting now a days more smaller devices is just because of transistors as they have very small size. They are so small that we rarely found an individual transistor. They are found in integrated circuits in large numbers. An IC normally contain 20 to 60 transistors. The latest microprocessor contain almost 3 billion transistors and you can imagine the size of microprocessor. They are in our smart phones, smart watches, and radios and in every small smart device. The reason for their large use is their less cost and their requirements of low currents and voltages for operating.

Types of Transistor:

There two main types of Transistor,

1. BJT Transistor (Bi Polar Junction)
2. FETs Transistor(Field Effect Transistor)

BJT transistor are further classified to:

1. n-p-n
2. p-n-p

While FETs have also further classification.

The transistor tree below show classification of these Transistors.

                               

    

Centripetal force

Definition:

"Centripetal force is a force, which keeps a body moving in a circular path and that force acting towards the center of that circular path."

Explanation:

A body never automatically or itself moves in a circular path it, there is always a reason or some force that causes it to move in a circular path and that force in general is known as a centripetal force. and that force is always directed towards  center. it means force is from the center of circular path that causes it to move in a circular path.

Example:

You tries to move a string in a circular path. one end of it is in your hand and other is tied with a stone. and consider that stone is a body. you provide force from your hand which is at the center of circular path in which stone(body) is moving.

Formula:

 

This equation shows that force depends on the mass of body and the velocity by which it is moving in path and the distance(r) between the center of circular path and body.

What is Physics?

First of all you have to know about  definition of physics and then break down of it.

Definition:

"The branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy."

Physics is the branch of science which is concerned with matter and energy. It is the study of thier behaviour in different conditions and forms.
Through physics knowledge many laws has been introduced, because of it we can solve related problems easily.

What is Science?

First of all the definition of Science should be understand, then break down of every line will be good.

Definition:

"knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method."

Now explanation of it:

Means, science is a knowledge base on true things or logic. It also have some general laws which comes from experiments done by scientist. And these laws satisfies in every related problem.