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Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

Worksheets - Microcontrollers/Processors

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

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Calculus for Electric Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

Boolean Algebra

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

Linear Computational Circuitry

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

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Memory Devices

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

DC Motor Theory

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

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

Tools

This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Radio Circuits

Textbook

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

Principles of Radio

Textbook

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

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

Textbook

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.

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

Textbook

Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

Brushless DC Motor

Textbook

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

Textbook

Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Linear Computational Circuitry

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

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…

Reluctance Motor

Textbook

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

Resonance

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

Textbook

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.

Boolean Algebra

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

Synchronous Motors

Textbook

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Memory Devices

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

Analysis Techniques for Series Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…

Binary Count Sequence

Textbook

If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…

Radar Maximum Range Calculator

Tools

This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect

Passive Filter Circuits

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

The J-K Flip-Flop

Textbook

Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…

AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

Textbook

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

Textbook

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.

Biasing Techniques (IGFET)

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Zener Diodes

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

Conductor Size

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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…

Complex Circuits

Textbook

What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…

Voltage Multipliers (Doublers, Triplers, Quadruplers, and More)

Textbook

A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

Introduction to Complex Numbers

Textbook

If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…

Finite-length Transmission Lines

Textbook

A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…

Solving Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge Circuits Via Mesh Current Method

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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…

Octal and Hexadecimal to Decimal Conversion

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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…

Band Theory of Solids

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Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…

Series R, L, and C

Textbook

Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it:  …

Voltage Divider Circuits

Textbook

Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…