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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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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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 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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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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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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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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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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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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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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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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A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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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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The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…
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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 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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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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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip
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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…
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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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Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque
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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
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Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…
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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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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.
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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