This book is very helpful for anyone who wants to know about electronic components. You will know what the colored bands on resistors indicate and identify the capacitance of a capacitor and decipher the hieroglyphs there. This book will guide you on how to the identification of some of the more common passive electronic components. There are sections to be found on: - Resistors - Capacitors - Inductors - LCR Circuits - Switches - Potentiometers - Transformers - Diodes - Rectification