In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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.
An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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 Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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 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.
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.
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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 instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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.
This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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.
Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…