“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…
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If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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If some percentage of an amplifier’s output signal is connected…
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We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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A tool designed to compute the values to be used in a T-match Impedance Circuit
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
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Series and Parallel Resistances Series and Parallel…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.
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How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle
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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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Cathode: This is the electrode that is heated and emits the…
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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test a 2-input digital NAND gate with LED indicators and learn to read pinout diagrams, power a digital IC, connect unused inputs and outputs, and use pulldown resistors.
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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…
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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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