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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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
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We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
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You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…
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Connecting digital circuitry to sensor devices is simple if the sensor…
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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…
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In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…
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A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
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If two coils of wire are brought into close proximity with each other…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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The table of electric currents and their various bodily effects was…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.
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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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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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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…
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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…
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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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“With Electronics Workbench, you can create circuit schematics…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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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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