Networks and Busses

The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

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Design Project: Radio Transmitter

Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…

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Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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

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Linear Computational Circuitry

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

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Principles of Radio

One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

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Radio Circuits

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

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Specific Troubleshooting Techniques

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

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Wound Rotor Induction Motors

A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

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Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

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Brushless DC Motor

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

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AC Motor Control Circuits

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

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Polyphase Motor Design

AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

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Linear Computational Circuitry

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

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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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Microcontroller Principles

Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

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DC Motor Theory

If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

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DC Generator Theory

Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

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AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.

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DC Motor Control Circuits

How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…

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Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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

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Safety Grounding

In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

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Design Project: DC Motor

The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

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Reluctance Motor

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

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Memory Devices

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

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Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

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Electric Shock

It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

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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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The R/2R DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)

The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…

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IGFET Quirks

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Current Mirror BJTs

Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…

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Contributors (11)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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AC Phase

Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…

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T-Pad Attenuator Calculator

This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.

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

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

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Light-Pulse Switch

It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

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What is Norton’s Theorem and the Norton Equivalent Circuit?

This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…

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Sum and Product Notation

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

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The Instrumentation Amplifier

What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…

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Basic Ohmmeter Use

Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…

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Inductance

∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

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Intro Lab - Resistor Power Dissipation

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.

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Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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

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The “Operational” Amplifier

Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…

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Phasor Mathematics

Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…

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The S-R Latch

A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

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