Op-amp Circuits

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Clipper Circuits

A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…

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The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

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Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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OpAmp Oscillator Circuits

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Electrical Noise and Interference

Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

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Positive Feedback

As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…

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IGFET Amplifiers

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AC Phase

Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…

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Tracking ADC

A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…

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Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

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Building a Differential Amplifier

Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…

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Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL)

What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…

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AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

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Analog Lab - Voltage Comparator

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog voltage comparator circuit and learn how open-loop operational amplifiers function.

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The Junction Field-effect Transistor (JFET) as a Switch

Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…

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Other Waveshapes

As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

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Solving Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge Circuits Via Mesh Current Method

An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…

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The NOT Gate

The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

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Battery Life Calculator

This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.

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Time Constant Circuits

Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

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Impedance Matching With Transformers

Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…

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Amplifier Gain

The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…

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Transistor Ratings and Packages (IGFET)

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Computational Circuits

When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…

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Converting Between Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits

Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…

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Universal Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Parallel-out

The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…

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Arithmetic with Scientific Notation

The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…

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Memory Devices

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

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Solving Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge Circuits Via Mesh Current Method

An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…

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Series Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…

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Contributors (12)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Battery Construction

The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

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Capacitors

Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…

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The Common-source Amplifier (IGFET)

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Review of R, X, and Z (Resistance, Reactance and Impedance)

Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…

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Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…

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DC Lab - Potentiometric Voltmeter

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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Junction Diodes

There was some historic crude, but usable semiconductor…

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Ohm’s Law Practice Worksheet With Answers

Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

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Asynchronous Counters

In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…

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Wiring Color Codes

Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…

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Introduction to Solid-state Device Theory

This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…

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Si Lab - BJT Common-collector Voltage Follower

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.

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Regulated Power Sources

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Sum and Product Notation

For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

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Kirchhoff’s Laws

Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

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