Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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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 solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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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.
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
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Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…
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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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Figure below shows a photodiode amplifier for measuring low levels of…
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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): Material*…
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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This page provides a step-by-step introduction to using the mesh…
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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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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.
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a rectangular waveguide
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