In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.
Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
This calculator will determine the square root, cube root, or nth root of a given number, x.
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.
This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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.
It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…
The concept of a mathematical power is familiar to most students of…
This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
Series and Parallel Resistances Series and Parallel…
Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…
Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use a PC-based oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn basic oscilloscope operation.
A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.
