What is a Circut, Current, Resisitor with pics?

Question

And also what are the types of circuts? I will give a Best answer to the best answerer, I promise

Answer 1

a circut is a circular path for electrons to flow. it must have points of electron push and pull. - is push, + is pull

they flow from high pressure to low pressure, so one end has -polarity(alot of extra electrons) the other has +polarity(not enough electrons). If a path is give for them to flow, they will. That path is a circut. the flow is the current

their are 4 different basic types of complete circuts,

the Short, with no resistors, or components between the + and - these run hot, and can cause fire and sparks, and some really cool light shows!

the simple circut, think of a flashlight without an off button, just batteries, and a bulb!(single component circuts)
the series circut , with one compontent after another, in a line

then the parallel circuit, with two components connected side by side.

most circuts are complex circuts, and have combinations of the last two.

then their is the 'broken' circut, with no path between + and -, it is useless


a resistor is a device that 'resist' the flow of electrons
it can be thought of as a 'slow down valve'(not refering to a tube)for the flow, so it doesn't run hot as in a short. It has many other good uses too. It can be used with capacitors as frequency filters, and they can be made to be variable(when you turn down the metal, so you can hear your girlfriend yell at you for not listening,you are moving a variable resistor knob!)

you can see pictures, and very detailed explanations on wikipedia of a resistor. try searching there for circuts, and that stuff too. I know Google has some good tech pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor

to the crazy comment,I learned this stuff in middle school, we spent two weeks on this. My last project was a portable guitar amp The question was what are they, not how do you calculate and plot the responce and corner frequency of an RLC filter

to the asker, we all start everything somewhere, keep asking questions, and ignore comments like that.

Answer 2

Try Wikipedia for looking stuff like this up. Worlds greatest encyclopedia.

Links below.

Answer 3

You want 4 years of Electrical / electronic Engineering learning in one minute!
Are you crazy, enticing us with a 'Best answerer' award??
No thanks.