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Rectifier Circuits

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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…

IGFET Amplifiers

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

Series Circuit Rules

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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…

Transistors, Bipolar

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There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…

Impedance

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

Phase-Locked Loops

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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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

Venn Diagrams and Sets

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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

DC Lab - Voltage Divider

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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.

Other Waveshapes

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

LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.

AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.

Averager and Summer Circuits

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If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…

Electron Versus Conventional Flow

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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…

Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…

Impedance Matching With Transformers

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Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…

Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

Elementary Circuits

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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…

Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Octal and Hexadecimal to Decimal Conversion

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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…

Component Modeling

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When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…

Series R, L, and C

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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it:  …

Time Constant Circuits

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

Voltage-to-Current Signal Conversion

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In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

Basic Voltmeter Use

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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Contributors (8)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…

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

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

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

Band-pass Filters

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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…

Binary Subtraction

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We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…

Signal Modulation

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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

History of SPICE

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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…

Millman’s Theorem

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

AC Waveforms

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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…

Op-Amp Data

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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…

DC Lab - Voltage Divider

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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.

Solving Series and Parallel Circuits With the Table Method and Ohm’s Law

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The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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Likely Failures in Proven Systems

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The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Synchronous Condenser

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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…

Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator

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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.

VSWR / Return Loss Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line

Digital Ramp ADC

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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…

Electrical Noise and Interference

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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

The Command-line Interface

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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Pi Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.

Trigonometric Derivatives

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Contributors (6)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

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

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