How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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.
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…
The time constant of a series RC circuit is the product of the resistance and capacitance. Given two of the three values—resistance, capacitance, or RC time constant—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls current with the…
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.
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
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.
The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
For bipolar junction transistors, the fundamental measure of…
The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…
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.
There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…
Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.
While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…
Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…
Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.
A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
