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Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…

Oscillator Circuits

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

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

Harmonics in Polyphase Power Systems

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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…

AC Network Analysis

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

Mixed-Frequency Signals

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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…

Bandpass Filter Calculator

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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.

Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

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It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…

Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Polyphase Motor Design

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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

Latch Circuits

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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.

Multiplexers and Demultiplexers

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

Introduction to Digital Communication

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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…

Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Voltage-to-Current Signal Conversion

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In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…

Latch Circuits

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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…

Delta-Sigma ADC

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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…

Oscillator Circuits

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

AC Network Analysis

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

Why digital?

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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…

Voltage Signal Systems

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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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

Design Project: Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Signal Generator

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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

Signal Modulation

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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

Polyphase Motor Design

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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

Introduction to Mixed-Frequency AC Signals

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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…

Safety Grounding

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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…

Delta and Wye 3-Phase Circuits

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Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…

DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

Larger 4-variable Karnaugh Maps

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Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…

Fail-safe Design

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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…

What is a Filter?

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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

Microstrip Trace Width Calculator

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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

AC Lab - LC Tank Circuit

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Stepper Motor Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor

Introduction to Shift Registers

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

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…

Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Phasor Mathematics

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Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…