To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.
The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
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.
While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
If vectors with uncommon angles are added, their magnitudes (lengths)…
When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build analog circuits, including amplifiers, comparators, oscillators, and more. Following the step-by-step instructions will help you understand and appreciate analog systems.
In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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.
What does it mean if an integrated circuit comes in DIP form? What…
In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…
Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.
There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…