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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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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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 principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.
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De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.
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If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…
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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…
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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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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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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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Periodic table of chemical elements.
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A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.
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