Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.
For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
What does it mean if an integrated circuit comes in DIP form? What…
A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.
The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…
There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
