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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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
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Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
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A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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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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Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
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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 control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…
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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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Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
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A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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