An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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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.
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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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.
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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
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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.
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A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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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.
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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.
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The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…
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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…
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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.
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.
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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…
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As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
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(“c” being a constant) RELATED…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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