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Antiderivatives of Power Functions of e

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  Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

Copper Wire Gauge Table

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

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Switch Contact Design

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

Specific Resistance

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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…

Solving Simultaneous Equations: The Substitution Method and the Addition Method

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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…

Conductor Ampacity

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

Derivative of a Constant

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    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

Electrical Connections

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

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Derivatives of Power Functions of e

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

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.

Insulator Breakdown Voltage

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

Wiring Color Codes Infographic

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Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…

Time Constant Calculations

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

DC Transducers

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Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…

Introduction to Mixed-Frequency AC Signals

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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…

Mutual Inductors

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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…

AC Network Analysis

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Likely Failures in Unproven Systems

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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…

The Common-base Amplifier

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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…

Programmable Logic Technology

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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…

Stepper Motors

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

Electrical Conduction in Semiconductors

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

From Electric to Electronic

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Introduction This third volume of the book series Lessons In Electric…

Making a Venn Diagram Look Like a Karnaugh Map

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Starting with circle A in a rectangular A’ universe in figure…

Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

Multiplexers and Demultiplexers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Current Mirror BJTs

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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…

Digital Lab - Basic 2-Input NAND Gate Circuit

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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.

What is a Series-Parallel Circuit?

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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

More on AC “polarity”

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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…

IGFET Quirks

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Harmonics in Polyphase Power Systems

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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…

Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

DC Branch Current Analysis

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Network Topology

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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…

JFET Biasing Techniques

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Using an example, learn about the different bias techniques for junction field effect transistors (JFETs) like the constant voltage bias, self-bias configuration, and voltage divider biasing.

Digital Lab - 10-bit Flashing LED Sequencer

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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.

Critical Temperatures for Superconductors

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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…

Basic Ammeter Use

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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…

Design Project: Sensitive Audio Detector

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The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Measurements of AC Magnitude

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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…

Bridged-Tee Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a bridged-tee attenuator.

Using Multiple Combinational Circuits

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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

AC Phase

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Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…

Special Diodes

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Voltage Regulation

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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…

Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…