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Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Practical Considerations of ADC Circuits

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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…

Karnaugh Mapping

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

Programmable Logic Technology

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

Multiplexers and Demultiplexers

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Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Flip-Flop Circuits

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Digital Logic Signals

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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…

Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Vol III. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Computational Circuits

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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

Boolean Rules for Simplification

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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…

Venn Diagrams and Sets

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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…

Digital Memory Terms and Concepts

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When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…

555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.

555 Lab - Schmitt Trigger

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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.

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…

TTL NOR and OR gates

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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…

Intro Lab - How to Use an Ammeter to Measure Current

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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.

Connectors

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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…

Rectangle Loop Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.

Simultaneous Equations for Circuit Analysis

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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Microstrip Inductance Calculator

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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.

Memory Devices

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AC Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…

More on Spectrum Analysis

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Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…

Battery Life Calculator

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This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.

DC Bridge Circuits

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Summary of Filters

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As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…

Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

Class B BJT Amplifiers

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555 Timer Monostable Circuit Calculator

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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit

AC Network Analysis

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Capacitor Sizing Equation

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Capacitance Formula     Permittivity of Dielectric  …

Millman’s Theorem

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Rules for Antiderivatives

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Constant Rule     Rule of Sums     Rule of…

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…

Special Diodes

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Beam Power Tubes

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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…

Control Circuits

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Time-delay Relays

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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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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.

Decibels Equations

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Complex Number Arithmetic

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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

Multiplexers

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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

DC Transducers

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

Switch Types

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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…

DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.

Si Lab - JFET Current Regulator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.

Ideal Diode Current and Voltage Calculator

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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.

Winding Configurations

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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…