Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…
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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
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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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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
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You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…
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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
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In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…
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Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…
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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
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To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.
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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…
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Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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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.
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Definition of a Logarithm “log” denotes a…
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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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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.
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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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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
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In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…
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A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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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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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…
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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
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Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…
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