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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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.
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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.
Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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.
Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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.
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…
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Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…
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.
A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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.
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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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…