Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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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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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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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.
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Limitations of Electromechanical Relays As versatile as…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…
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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
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For extremely high-frequency applications (above 1 GHz), the…
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
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Add the following binary numbers:
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This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
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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.
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.
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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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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The structure behind ladder logic is based on the electrical ladder…
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Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…
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