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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.
A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.
A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…
With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.
We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…
Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
Similar in thought to the idea of the integrated circuit, tube…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…
Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…
This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.
Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…
