AC Network Analysis

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Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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

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The “Operational” Amplifier

Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…

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Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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The Common-emitter Amplifier

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

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Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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

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Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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

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DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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.

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Decibel Measurements

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

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Battery Life Calculator

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.

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Class A BJT Amplifiers

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Absolute dB scales

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

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Impedance Matching With Transformers

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

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Resonance

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

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Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Basic Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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

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Square Wave Signals

It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

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Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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.

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RC Time Constant Calculator

The time constant of a series RC circuit is the product of the resistance and capacitance. Given two of the three values—resistance, capacitance, or RC time constant—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.

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Attenuators

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

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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Active Filters

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What is a Filter?

It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

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Battery Life Calculator

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.

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Si Lab - Zener Diode Voltage Regulator

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.

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Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…

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Diodes

A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…

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Example Circuits and Netlists

The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…

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Peak Detector

A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…

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Voltage and Current Calculations

There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…

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Electron Activity in Chemical Reactions

So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…

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The TRIAC

SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…

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Design Project: Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Signal Generator

What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…

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Transistor Ratings and Packages (IGFET)

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Waveguide Calculator (Rectangular)

This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a rectangular waveguide

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Contributors (5)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Electrical Connections

What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

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Mutual Inductance

When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

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The Triode

De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…

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Successive Approximation ADC

One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…

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BJT Quirks

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

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Contributors (6)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Design Project: Radio Transmitter

Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…

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