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.
Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
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.
With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…
Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…
Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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.
Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…
Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
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.
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…
(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
