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Electronics

Ohm's law, power and component values.

Electronics is the category where the definitions do the work. An ohm is defined so that one volt across it drives one ampere, and a watt so that one volt at one ampere delivers a joule every second — so every formula here is those two statements rearranged, not an empirical rule with exceptions. What the arithmetic will not tell you is where it stops applying: a diode is not a resistor, an inductor on alternating current is not either, and a part rated exactly at the power it dissipates is a part running too hot. Each tool says where its own limits are.

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How these tools are built

Every tool in this category runs entirely in your browser: there is no upload, no account and no request to a server once the page has loaded. The numbers behind them are transcribed from the organisation that defines them — NIST for units, the W3C for web formats, the WHO for health measures — and each page names its source next to the formula. A tool whose reference values stop reproducing fails the build and does not ship, which is the whole reason the catalogue grows slowly.

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