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Derivatives of Power Functions of e

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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

Contactors

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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…

Millman’s Theorem

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Ohmmeter Design

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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…

The “Operational” Amplifier

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Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…

Voltage Regulation

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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

Analog Lab - Class B Audio Amplifier

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Voltmeter Design

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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…

Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Basic Oscilloscope Operation

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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…

Capacitor Transient Response

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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

Mutual Inductance

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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…

The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

Delta and Wye 3-Phase Circuits

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Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…

555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.

Measurements of AC Magnitude

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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…

Digital Lab - S-R Latch With Enable Input using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.

Other Waveshapes

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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Phase-locked Loops

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Power Supply Circuits

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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…

Metric Prefix Conversions

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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…

Transistor Biasing Calculations

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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…

Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

Superposition Theorem

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Bridge Circuits

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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…

Miscellaneous Diode Applications

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Ohm’s Law - How Voltage, Current, and Resistance Relate

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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…

Counters

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

The Shockley Diode

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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…

AC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.

Rules for Limits

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

Data Flow

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Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…

Zener Diodes

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Band Theory of Solids

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Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…

Power Supply Circuits

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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…

Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

Asynchronous Counters

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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

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Three-phase Transformer Circuits

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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…

Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Biasing Techniques (IGFET)

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Ammeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…

Design Project: Radio Transmitter

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Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…

Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…

DC Lab - Potentiometric Voltmeter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…

AC Lab - Build a Transformer

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple transformer and learn some important transformer fundamentals including voltage step-up and step-down.

An Analogy for Divided Feedback

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A helpful analogy for understanding divided feedback amplifier…

Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.

Wire Types and Sizes

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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…

R, L and C Summary

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With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…