In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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Connecting digital circuitry to sensor devices is simple if the sensor…
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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…
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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
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Larger Karnaugh maps reduce larger logic designs. How large is large…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
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It is imperative to understand that the type of numeration system used…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
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In an astable circuit, the output voltage alternates between VCC and 0 volts on a continuous basis. This calculator will help you design an oscillator using a 555 timer IC.
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…
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Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.
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Additive Identity a + 0 = a Multiplicative Identity 1a = a…
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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…
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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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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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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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