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Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

Active Filters

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Decibel Measurements

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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

BJT Amplifier Troubleshooting

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

Class A BJT Amplifiers

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Oscillator Circuits

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“Long’’ and “Short’’ Transmission Lines

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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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BJT Quirks

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

Attenuators

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

The Common-emitter Amplifier

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

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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

Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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

Decibels

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

Op-Amp Practical Considerations

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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…

Design Project: Audio Power Amplifier

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Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…

Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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

Phase-Locked Loops

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

Analog Lab - Class B Audio Amplifier

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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.

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.

Clipper and Clamper Circuits

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AC Waveforms

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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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

What is a Filter?

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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

BJT Amplifier Troubleshooting

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

Op-Amp Practical Considerations

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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…

Basic Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…

BJT Quirks

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

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…

Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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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.

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.

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

SPICE Models

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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

Digital Lab - S-R Latch With Enable Input using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.

Antiderivatives of Power Functions of e

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  Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…

Class C BJT Amplifiers

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A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

Safe Circuit Design

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As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…

Capacitor Transient Response

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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…

Sum and Product Notation

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

Inductive Reactance

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Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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Permanent Magnets

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Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…

Integrated Circuits

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  A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…

Conductors, Insulators, and Electron Flow

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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…

Op-Amp Data

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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…

Intro Lab - Ohm’s Law

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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…

The Quadratic Formula

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Solving for x in a given polynomial equation “ax2 + bx + c…

Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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DC Lab - Potentiometric Voltmeter

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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.