Standing Waves and Resonance

Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

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Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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Impedance

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Resonance

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

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Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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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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Design Project: Audio Media-Based Signal Generator

Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…

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Absolute dB scales

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

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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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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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Op-Amp Practical Considerations

Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…

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Decibels

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

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BJT Quirks

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

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AC Waveforms

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

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“Long’’ and “Short’’ Transmission Lines

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

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AC Lab - Frequency Analysis

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.

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Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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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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AC Lab - PC Oscilloscope

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.

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Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.

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Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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Introduction to Mixed-Frequency AC Signals

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

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Tubes versus Semiconductors

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

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Oscillator Circuits

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AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

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Binary Subtraction

We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…

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Basic Electromagnetic Relays

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Capacitor Quirks

As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…

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Physiological Effects of Electricity

Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…

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Inductance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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

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AC Lab - Sensing AC Electric Fields

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.

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Digital Logic With Feedback

With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…

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Shift Registers

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Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

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Voltage Divider Circuits

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Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…

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The Common-base Amplifier

The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…

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Phase-locked Loops

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Thermocouples

Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

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Time-delay Relays

What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

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RMS Voltage Calculator

This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.

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Finite State Machines

Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

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Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…

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DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.

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Simple AC Circuit Calculations

Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…

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