Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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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.
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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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.
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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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.
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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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.
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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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.
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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.
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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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.
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
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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.
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…
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Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
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A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
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<p> Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
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How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
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