In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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.
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.
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.
The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…
A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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.
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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.
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.
Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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.
Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…
This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.
Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…
Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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.
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…
In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…