Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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.
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…
A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
Many different equations used in the analysis of electric circuits may…
A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…
“With Electronics Workbench, you can create circuit schematics…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…
While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…
The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…
As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
