Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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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.
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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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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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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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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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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.
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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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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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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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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.
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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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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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Specific resistance at 20o C: Material Element/Alloy ohm-cmil/ft…
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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.
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
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For extremely high-frequency applications (above 1 GHz), the…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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