This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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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.
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
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Introduction This third volume of the book series Lessons In Electric…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
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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.
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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…
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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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Temperature coefficient (α) per degree C: Material Element/Alloy…
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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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Series and Parallel Resistances Series and Parallel…
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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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This tool is designed to convert power ratios to decibel
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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.
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
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The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
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A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
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