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.

                               

    

Inductor, Inductance, explanation, formula

Definition:-

"Inductor is an electronic device that is use to store energy in the form of magnetic field."

Explanation:-

Inductor store energy in magnetic field around it. Inductor is an coil of a conductor(wire). wire wounding on some rod or magnet. when a current passes through the conductor then there will be magnetic field around the wire. We wound the wire because by winding there would produce a strong magnetic field around this, we could increase the strength of  magnetic field around coil by taking efficient core like magnet and by increasing number of turns of coil and increasing cross sectional area of inductor. When current flows through the inductor there would produce magnetic field around it and in that magnetic field energy would be store (in the form electrons). It would be store until current is flowing through it. When current will stop it will release all the energy.

Inductor does not allow AC current to flow through it due its changing direction nature. While inductor resist to change in current so it becomes open in a circuit while AC current flows through the circuit. It allows DC current to flow through it. After charging completely it allows DC to flow through the circuit hence become short in circuit with zero resistance.

Inductance:-

Inductance is the property of a inductor which is that "whenever Flux is changed in it, it produces an EMF."

or in simple words

Inductance is the ability of an inductor to store energy in the form magnetic field.

Henry is the unit of Inductance.

Formula:

formula for inductance of inductor is,

Why like charges repel each other and unlike charges attract each other?

Why like charges repel each other?

"Like charges repel each other because, it depends upon where the two charges have their electric field forces directed."

As positive charge have electric field lines going away from it and when two positive charge particles come near to each other there electric field lines tries to bend each other and their lines of forces are opposite in direction with respect to each other so both particles tries to send away to each other and hence in this way they repels each other.

Below diagram explain all the things which is described above.

Why unlike charges attract each other?

Like charges attract each other because their electric field lines are in the same direction in respective to each other, as we know Negative charge have electric field lines towards it(or coming to each other), and positive charge have away from it or going away from it. so when both comes near to each other, while negative charge tries to attract positive charge and positive charge tries to move towards negative each other.

Below picture explain all the phenomena describe above.

AC Generator

Definition:-

"The machine which is used to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy(AC current) is known as AC Generator"

Explanation:-

The device which gives us AC current(Electrical energy) by taking mechanical energy from any source(could be us) is known as Ac generator. Its construction is similar to dc generator and its working is also same almost. 

The above shown diagram is of AC generator. our need is to get the current which changes its direction after every half cycle, so to get this we need to get the current from one slip ring for one half and for other slip ring for the second half. Slip rings are connected at different ends of closed circuit. where load is connected. So that load will get Ac current.

Construction:-

It consists of following parts:-

1.Magnet

2.Slip Rings or Commutator

3.Conducting Coil or Armature

4.Carbon brushes

5. Load  

Working:-

According to the Faraday's Law of electromagnetic induction, whenever a conducting coil is move or rotates across magnetic field emf produces in it and due to this, current starts to flow through it. So in this generator when coil will move by some mechanical force across magnetic field of magnet, then there will produce an EMF and because of this, current will start to flow through it(if coil path is closed or connected to other circuit). Direction of current will be according to Fleming's right hand rule. 

As shown in this diagram, For first half rotation of coil the current will go to the load form one slip ring and for 2nd half rotation of coil the current will go from the other slip rings to the load so it is giving ac current to the load as it is changing its direction after every half cycle.

laws of motion. explanation

There are 3 laws of motion. It is described(invented) by Newton.
They're:

1.First law of motion (law of inertia)

"An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force"

Explanation:

It means that a body in rest condition, will remain in rest until a force will act, whether is the Force by human, air or from anywhere.

 Example:

 A book will remain on table unless you will pick it or it is blow away by some wind. And body will remain in motion unless some force will stop it. I.e. A car will never stop until you break it.

2. Second law of motion

" Acceleration of an object is dependent upon two variables - the net force acting upon the object and the mass of the object."

Explanation:

It means that if a body has change in its velocity(speed) or position, then its depend upon the total force acting upon him and the mass of the body. It is also known as law of inertia. Having low mass will demand less force for change in its speed.

Example:

If you will apply same force on car and then truck. Car will have more acceleration than truck because car have less mass with respect to the truck.

Formula:

acceleration = Force/mass (a=F/m)

                                        F= a.m

Third law of motion:-

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

Explanation:-

Its means that if there will be action from some body to other body, there is always a re-action from other body equal in force but opposite in direction.

Example:-

If you throw the tennis ball to the wall then ball will return back to you with same speed. You throw the ball it is an action the ball returns it is an reaction and in opposite direction.