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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The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…
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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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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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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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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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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 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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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 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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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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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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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
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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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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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What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
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Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): Material*…
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As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.
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For bipolar junction transistors, the fundamental measure of…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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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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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.
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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.
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