Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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Add the following binary numbers:
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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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.
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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
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Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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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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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
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