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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.

Phase-Locked Loops

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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…

Class A BJT Amplifiers

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Practical Considerations - Transformers

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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…

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.

Si Lab - Astable Multivibrator Audio Oscillator

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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.

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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BJT Amplifier Troubleshooting

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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…

Mixed-Frequency Signals

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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Decibel Calculator

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This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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What is a Filter?

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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

DC 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.

Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…

Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…

Design Project: Signal Generator

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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…

Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Shift Registers: Serial-in, Parallel-out (SIPO) Conversion

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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…

Vectors and AC Waveforms

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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…

Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Shift Registers

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Resistance, Reactance, and Impedance

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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…

Wavelength (TEM) Calculator

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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Parallel Resistor Calculator

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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.

DC Lab - Capacitor Charging and Discharging

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.

Asymmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an asymmetric stripline

Balanced Attenuator Calculator

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This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.

Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits

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JFET Amplifiers

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Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Algebraic Substitution for Electric Circuits

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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…

Strain Gauges

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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…

Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…

The Common-emitter Amplifier

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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…

Specific Troubleshooting Techniques

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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…

Transistor Ratings and Packages (IGFET)

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Introduction to Karnaugh Mapping

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Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…

Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

Memory Devices

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Atomic Structure

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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…

DC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, you will build direct current (DC) circuits and learn fundamental electrical engineering circuit concepts.

Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits

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Attenuators

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

Potentiometers

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Averager and Summer Circuits

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If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Inductive Reactance

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Elementary Amplifier Theory

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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.

Early Tube History

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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…

Signal Modulation

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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

The Cascode Amplifier

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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…

Some Examples with AC Circuits

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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…

Inductance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor