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Thyristor Application Circuits

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

Switch Types

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

Lorentz Force Calculator

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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

Encoders and Decoders

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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…

Latch Circuits

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

DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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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.

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

AC Bridge Circuits

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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Protective Relay Circuits

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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

Permissive and Interlock Circuits

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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…

Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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

Electromagnetism

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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…

The S-R Latch

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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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

Miscellaneous Diode Applications

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Si Lab - Bipolar Transistor as a Switch

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

Light-Pulse Switch

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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

Latch Circuits

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

Inductor Commutating Circuits

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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…

Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Thyristor Application Circuits

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

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.

High Voltage Ohmmeters

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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…

TTL Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Likely Failures in Unproven Systems

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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…

Linear Computational Circuitry

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

Emergency Response

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Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…

Radar Maximum Range Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

Series LED Resistor Calculator

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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.

Resistor Color Code Calculator and Chart—4 Band, 5 Band, or 6 Band Resistors

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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.

Sequences

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Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

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.

Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

EIRP Calculator

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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna

Diode Ratings

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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…

The J-K Flip-Flop

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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…

Larger 4-variable Karnaugh Maps

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

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Active Filters

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

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…