Benson, that was a tremendous post! Thank you kindly for your insight.

I think I understand most of it. The following confuses me a bit:
I'm not sure what this is. Are these assumptions made prior to the explanation? I think I understand the idea of corner frequency, even if my inchoate mental model is somewhat wobbly.

One more question: What is it that electrical engineers do exactly? I've always been interested in circuits, but have never taken the plunge to play around with some home brew electronics. I'm guessing that EEs do this, at a much higher level. Am I right in assuming that Computer Engineers, are like EEs only with a specialty involving the organization of circuits for computation (logic/arithmetic/etc)?

Thank you so much. Could you recommend a good book/author? I need to know more, and can't continue asking you questions directly!


}:^)~
YARR!

Capt'n Corrupt