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Wires and Connections

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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…

Antiderivatives of Power Functions of e

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  Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

Electrical Connections

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

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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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.

Contact “Bounce”

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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…

Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Rules for Antiderivatives

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Constant Rule     Rule of Sums     Rule of…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

Rules for Derivatives

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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Circuit Wiring

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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

Copper Wire Gauge Table

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Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Safety Grounding

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Latch Circuits

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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…

Safe Practices

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If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…

Ammeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…

Counter Modulus

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Common Derivatives

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Metric Prefix Conversions

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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…

Attenuators

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

Logarithms for Analog Circuits

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The concept of a mathematical power is familiar to most students of…

The Gated S-R Latch

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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…

Asynchronous Flip-Flop Inputs

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The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…

DC Lab - Rheostat Range Limiting

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.

Introduction to Digital-Analog Conversion

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Connecting digital circuitry to sensor devices is simple if the sensor…

Si Lab - Multi-stage Amplifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.

Kelvin (4-wire) Resistance Measurement

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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…

Synchronous Condenser

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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…

Peak Voltage Calculator

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The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.

555 Lab - Schmitt Trigger

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.

Si Lab - BJT Common-emitter Amplifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.

Capacitor Quirks

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

Si Lab - A Simple BJT Current Mirror Circuit

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.

Ohm’s Law Calculator

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Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Applications of Resonance

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So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…

Numeration Systems

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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…

Delta-Sigma ADC

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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…

Nonlinear Conduction

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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…

Phasing

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Since transformers are essentially AC devices, we need to be aware of…

LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.

Sum and Product Notation

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

Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Fundamentals of SPICE programming

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Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…

Ohm’s Law

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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…

A Binary Adder

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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…

DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

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

Other Waveshapes

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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

Band-pass Filters

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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…

Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.

Microphones

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Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…

The Silicon-Controlled Switch (SCS)

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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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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.