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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

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.

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Relay Construction

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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…

Network Protocols

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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

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.

Parallel Resistor Calculator

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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.

Network Topology

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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…

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.

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.

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

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.

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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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.

ElectroStatic Discharge

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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…

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.

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.

Look-up Tables

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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…

Snell’s Law Calculator

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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.

Link Budget Calculator

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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.

Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

AC Metrology

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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…

Circuit Components

Textbook

Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

Simple Vector Addition

Textbook

Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…

Latch Circuits

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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…

Inductive Reactance

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

Tube Parameters

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For bipolar junction transistors, the fundamental measure of…

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

Inductors

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! A 5 H inductor is subjected to an electric…

Intro Lab - Ohm’s Law

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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Series Resistor-Inductor Circuits

Textbook

In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…

Introduction to AC Motors

Textbook

After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Stepper Motors

Textbook

Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Multiple-input Gates

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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…

Boolean Algebra

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

CMOS Gate Circuitry

Textbook

Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…