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Tubes versus Semiconductors

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

Impedance

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Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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The Common-emitter Amplifier

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

“Long’’ and “Short’’ Transmission Lines

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

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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

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.

Clipper and Clamper Circuits

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Feedback

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If some percentage of an amplifier’s output signal is connected…

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Battery Life Calculator

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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.

Decibels

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

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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Resonance

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

Input and Output Coupling

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

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.

BJT Quirks

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

Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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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.

Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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

What is a Filter?

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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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

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.

Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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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…

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.

Basic Electricity Worksheet

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Impedance Matching With Transformers

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

Introduction to Mixed-Frequency AC Signals

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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…

AC Network Analysis

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Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Regulated Power Sources

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Capacitor Impedance Calculator

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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.

Reluctance Motor

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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

Design Project: Power Inverter

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

Si Lab - JFET Current Regulator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.

Intro Lab - Ohm’s Law

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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…

Protective Relays

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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…

An Analogy for Divided Feedback

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A helpful analogy for understanding divided feedback amplifier…

More on Spectrum Analysis

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Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…

Control Circuits

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Comparator with Hysteresis (Schmitt Trigger) Calculator

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This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).

Rectifier Circuits

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Likely Failures in Proven Systems

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The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Design Project: LED Stroboscope

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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…

Series and Parallel Component Equivalent Values

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Series and Parallel Resistances     Series and Parallel…

AC Lab - Frequency Analysis

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.

LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.

Waveguides

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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…