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.
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.
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.
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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.
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…
Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
Power measurement in AC circuits can be quite a bit more complex than…
The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…
A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…
What does it mean if an integrated circuit comes in DIP form? What…
What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.
The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…
