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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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…
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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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If some percentage of an amplifier’s output signal is connected…
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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