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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog voltage comparator circuit and learn how open-loop operational amplifiers function.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.
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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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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.
Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
Since transformers are essentially AC devices, we need to be aware of…
This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…
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The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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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.
Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
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Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a rectangular waveguide
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.