The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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.
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.
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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.
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.
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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.
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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.
Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
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.
Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.
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.
How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…
Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…
The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
