In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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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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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…
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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.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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Periodic table of chemical elements.
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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…
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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line
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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…
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A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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