Products that

make use of
Common Electrical electronics will
and Electronic have electrical and
Components electronic parts or
components in
them

These have small

Battery: Provides screws that are
electricity and has tightened to clamp
a positive and the wires together.
negative terminal The plastics
One way to join
covering of the
electric
wires must be
When the switch is Switch: When the components
removed from the
opened, electricity switch is closed, together is to use
ends before they
cannot flow electricity flows terminal blocks
are inserted in the
through the circuit through the circuit
terminal blocks.
They are useful for
Wire allows making temporary
electricity to flow connections
through from one
component to the
Simple electronic
next in a circuit
circuits may be
Soldering is one of
made by mounting
the common ways
Bulb provides light electronic
of joining electrical
and could overheat components onto a
components. A
stripboard. It is
Electronics and metal, called the
Light-emitting Circuit diagrams also known as a
technology solder, is melted
diode (LED) lights veroboard, is a
around the joint
up when electricity Connecting sheet of insulating
using a soldering
flows through it Components material with holes
iron. When the
in it. The holes are
solder cools and
connected by
Resistance controls hardens, it holds
parallel strips of
the flow of the joint together
copper printed
electricity in the
onto the board
circuit

By using printed
Motor turns and
circuit boards, the
moves other parts
components and
to do work when
wires can then be
electricity flows
soldered directly
through it
onto the copper
tracks through tiny
A buzzer makes a holes in the
sound when boards. These are
electricity flows plastics boards
through it with copper tracks
printed on them to
form a circuit.

Components do
not do anything on
their own; they
Electrical Circuits only work when
they are connected
together to make
an electrical circuit