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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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
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A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
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Solid Copper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…
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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…
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A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
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Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test a 2-input digital NAND gate with LED indicators and learn to read pinout diagrams, power a digital IC, connect unused inputs and outputs, and use pulldown resistors.
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
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To learn about electronics, you must eventually engage in hands-on experimentation. Knowledge gleaned from books alone has limited use in scientific endeavors. Troubleshooting a circuit can be as important as the knowledge gained from a properly functioning experiment.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
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