AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

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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Speed Distance Time Calculator

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

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DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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.

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Electrical Conduction in Semiconductors

In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…

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Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

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Rules for Derivatives

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

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Connectors

An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…

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Common Sources of Hazard

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

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Electrical Connections

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

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Switch Contact Design

A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…

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Arithmetic Properties

Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…

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Conductor Ampacity

The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…

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Introduction to Conductance and Conductors

By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…

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Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

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Electrical Isolation

SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

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Insulator Breakdown Voltage

The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

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Non-right Triangle Trigonometry

The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…

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Right Triangle Trigonometry

  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

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Intro Lab - Circuit With a Switch

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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AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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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Derivatives of Power Functions of e

Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…

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Copper Wire Gauge Table

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

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“Ladder” Diagrams

Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

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Switched Capacitor Circuitry

Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

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Parallel R, L, and C

We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…

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Multiple-input Gates

The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…

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The S-R Latch

A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

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Scientific Notation in SPICE

The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…

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Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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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Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

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Analog-to-Digital Conversion

The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…

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AC Lab - LC Tank Circuit

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.

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Contributors (9)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Transistor Biasing Calculations

Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…

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MESFETs

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Arithmetic with Scientific Notation

The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…

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Input and Output Coupling

To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

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Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

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Stripline Max Current Calculator

A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle

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Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

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Wire Self Inductance Calculator

This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.

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Complex Circuits

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

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Introduction to Network Theorems for Circuit Analysis

Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…

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