I spent 4 years in repair, the next 16 in design engineering and the last 4 in industrial instrumentation (with college courses scattered all thru those 24 years) ... JB
how one know .ok i need 50k resistor or capitor here........if i dont have this i will use this ....... i mean u kknow this IC will work for me there r so many IC,s....
well you have to ask yourself what do you want to achive.
try to think of model of the circuit (or draw it) and calcualte.
chances are that results are not comon values so you have
to get the closest one available.
For example:
You want to go to Radio Shack to get LED but you
would like to connect it to 9V battery. How do you do it?
Add resistor? Parallel or serial? What value? What is normal
operating range for the LED? What is acceptable battery
voltage?
Challenge nr2:
You have same idea but want to use 5 LEDs. What is the most
efficient way to connect them (remember, they have to run
on battery and this means limited power).