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DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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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.

Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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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.

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.

AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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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.

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Lorentz Force Calculator

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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

AC Bridge Circuits

Textbook

As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…

Pi Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.

Contributors (15)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Solving for Unknown Time

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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

Finite-state Machine

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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…

Decoder

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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…

Metric Prefixes and Unit Conversions

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Metric Prefixes   Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…

DC Lab - Potentiometric Voltmeter

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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.

Mutual Inductance

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

The NOT Gate

Textbook

The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

Boolean Algebraic Properties

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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…

Peak to Peak Voltage Calculator (VP-P)

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This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.

Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL)

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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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

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Power measurement in AC circuits can be quite a bit more complex than…

Asynchronous Flip-Flop Inputs

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The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…

Si Lab - Commutating Diode

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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.

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Display Tubes

Textbook

In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…

Design Project: Sensitive Audio Detector

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…

Shift Registers: Serial-in, Parallel-out (SIPO) Conversion

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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…

Diode Ratings

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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Analysis Options

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AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…

DC Lab - Precision Potentiometer

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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.

An Analogy for Ohm’s Law

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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…

Multimeters

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Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…

IC Fabrication and Packaging

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

What does it mean if an integrated circuit comes in DIP form? What…

Solving Simultaneous Equations: The Substitution Method and the Addition Method

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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…

OpAmp Oscillator Circuits

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

AC Lab - Variable Inductor

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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 Rules for Simplification

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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…

Metric Prefixes and Unit Conversions

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Metric Prefixes   Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…

Mutual Inductance

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

Voltmeter Design

Textbook

As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…

Ohm’s Law Practice Worksheet With Answers

Worksheets - Industrial Automation

Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Susceptance and Admittance

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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

Intro Lab - Build an Electromagnet

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…

Transistor Ratings and Packages (BJT)

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Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…