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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…
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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
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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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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…
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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.
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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
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When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…
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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…
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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…
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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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