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The Instrumentation Amplifier

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What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…

Power Conversion Circuits

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Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

Binary Math Circuits

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Add the following binary numbers:

The P-N Junction

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If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…

Analog Lab - PWM Power Controller

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.

Si Lab - Half-wave Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.

Transistor Ratings and Packages (BJT)

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Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…

AC phase

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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…

Slope (integrating) ADC

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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

T-Match Impedance Matching Circuits

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A tool designed to compute the values to be used in a T-match Impedance Circuit

Impedance

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Basic AC-DC Power Supplies

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Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Parallel Circuits and the Application of Ohm’s Law

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In this introduction to parallel resistance circuits, we will explain…

Lorentz Force Calculator

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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

Current Mirror BJTs

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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…

JFET Amplifiers

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Square Wave Signals

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

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

Logarithms

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Definition of a Logarithm     “log” denotes a…

DC Lab - Capacitor Charging and Discharging

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

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.

AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

Rules for Limits

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Superposition Theorem

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Operational Amplifier Models

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While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…

Susceptance and Admittance

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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

Thyristor Application Circuits

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Analog Lab - 555 Ramp Signal Generator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.

LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

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

Coax Inductance Calculator

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A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.

Sources of Electricity

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What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

Broadside Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.

Vol V. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Harmonics in Polyphase Power Systems

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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…

Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…

Questions relating to project management

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Microprocessor Programming

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What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…

Parallel Circuits and the Application of Ohm’s Law

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In this introduction to parallel resistance circuits, we will explain…

Computer Simulation of Electric Circuits

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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…

AC Waveforms

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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…

Transistors, Insulated-gate Field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)

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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…

Analog Lab - Op Amp Integrator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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

The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

Voltage Signal Systems

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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…

Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…

Fundamentals of SPICE programming

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Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…

Asymmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an asymmetric stripline

Control Circuits

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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.

Diode Switching Circuits

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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…

Transistors, Bipolar

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

Solving for Unknown Time

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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

Decibels Equations

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Series and Parallel Component Equivalent Values

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Series and Parallel Resistances     Series and Parallel…