Footnotes

Chapter 1: What Is Electricity?

* The electron is a negative particle, but in some materials the current is made up of positive particles instead, and they flow in the opposite direction. So, at the atomic level, the particles can flow in either direction.

Chapter 9: How Circuits Understand Ones and Zeros

* Sometimes kilobyte refers to 1024 bytes (2^10).

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