There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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Reactive Power We know that reactive loads such as inductors and…
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This calculator computes the noise figure and noise temperature in a system
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Connecting digital circuitry to sensor devices is simple if the sensor…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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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.
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
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Another strategy for addressing the problem of secondary electrons…
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AC electromechanical meter movements come in two basic arrangements:…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…
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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…
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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.
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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
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