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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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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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Learn about junction field effect transistors (JFETs), their equations, and how to model and simulate JFETs in LTspice.
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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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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.