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Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

CMOS Gate Circuitry

Textbook

Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…

Solving Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge Circuits Via Mesh Current Method

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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…

Q Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit

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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…

Solving Series and Parallel Circuits With the Table Method and Ohm’s Law

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The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…

Analog Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build analog circuits, including amplifiers, comparators, oscillators, and more. Following the step-by-step instructions will help you understand and appreciate analog systems.

CMOS Logic Gates

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

Digital Lab - Introduction

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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.

SPICE Simulation of Series and Parallel Circuits

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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…

LC Resonant Frequency Calculator

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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.

Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

Parallel Resistor Calculator

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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.

Integrated Circuits

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  A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…

555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.

555 Lab - Red LED Flasher

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.

Battery Life Calculator

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This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.

555 Lab - Advanced Red LED Flasher

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.

Electrical Energy Calculator

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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.

RC Time Constant Calculator

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The time constant of a series RC circuit is the product of the resistance and capacitance. Given two of the three values—resistance, capacitance, or RC time constant—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.

Phase-Locked Loops

Worksheets - IC Design

This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…

Beam Power Tubes

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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…

Operational Amplifier Models

Textbook

While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…

Other Waveshapes

Textbook

As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

Phase Rotation

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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…

Capacitance Calculator

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This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.

Digital Logic Signals

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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…

Simulating JFET Circuits Using LTspice

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Learn about junction field effect transistors (JFETs), their equations, and how to model and simulate JFETs in LTspice.

Table (portrait view)

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  Periodic table of chemical elements.

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…

AC Power

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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…

Harmonics in Polyphase Power Systems

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

Timer Circuits

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

Circuit Simplification Examples

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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Introduction to Operational Amplifiers (Op-amps)

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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…

Introduction to Electron Tubes

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An often neglected area of study in modern electronics is that of…

Fuses

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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…

Venn Diagrams and Sets

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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…

Switches

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Light-Pulse Switch

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

What Are Electric Circuits?

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You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…

The Unijunction Transistor (UJT)

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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…

Factorials

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Definition of a Factorial Denoted by the symbol “!” after…

Series Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…

AC Lab - Frequency Analysis

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.

Diode Ratings

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

Metric Notation

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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…

Binary Math Circuits

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Add the following binary numbers:

Op-amp Circuits

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

Design Project: Audio Power Amplifier

Worksheets - IC Design

Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…

Winding Configurations

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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…

Synchronous Condenser

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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…

Transistor Ratings and Packages (JFET)

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The Command-line Interface

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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…

Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

Resistance, Reactance, and Impedance

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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…

The Cascode Amplifier

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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…

Current Mirror BJTs

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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…