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Design Project: Signal Generator

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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…

Multiplexers and Demultiplexers

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

Design Project: Audio Media-Based Signal Generator

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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…

Square Root, Cube Root, and Nth Root Calculator

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This calculator will determine the square root, cube root, or nth root of a given number, x.

Absolute dB scales

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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

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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.

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…

Clipper and Clamper Circuits

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

Input and Output Coupling

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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

Resonance

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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…

Oscillator Circuits

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

AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Impedance

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

Attenuators

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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

AC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector with Audio Output

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.

Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…

Converting Truth Tables into Boolean Expressions

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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…

The Common-source Amplifier (IGFET)

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Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Tubes versus Semiconductors

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Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…

What is a Filter?

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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

Broadside Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.

Switches, Hand Actuated

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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…

Node Voltage Method

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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…

Op-Amp Practical Considerations

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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…

RF Power Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa

BJT Quirks

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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…

Polarity of voltage drops

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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…

Electrons and “holes’’

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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator

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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.

Current Divider Circuits

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

Resistor Color Code Calculator and Chart—4 Band, 5 Band, or 6 Band Resistors

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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.

Universal Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Parallel-out

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

Flash ADC

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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…

Twisted-Pair Impedance Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Data - Resistance & Superconductor

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Tables of specific resistance and temperature coefficient of…

Wires and Connections

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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…

Transistor Ratings and Packages (BJT)

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Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…

Contributors (15)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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Transistors, Insulated-gate Field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)

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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…

Differential Transistor Amplifiers

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

The Unijunction Transistor (UJT)

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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…

Digital Lab - 7-segment LED Display

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.

Lorentz Force Calculator

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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

Voltage Multipliers (Doublers, Triplers, Quadruplers, and More)

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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…

Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…

Analog Lab - Precision Voltage Follower Using an Op Amp

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.

Bipolar Junction Transistors

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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…

Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…

Electrons and “holes’’

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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…

Introduction to Junction Field-effect Transistors (JFET)

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A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls current with the…

Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

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Write the following exponential expressions in expanded form: 101 =…