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Relay Construction

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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…

Winding Configurations

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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…

The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

High Voltage Ohmmeters

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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…

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.

Network Protocols

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

AC Lab - Large Induction Motor

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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.

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

High Voltage Ohmmeters

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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Relay Construction

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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…

AC Lab - Induction Motor

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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.

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

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.

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.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

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.

ElectroStatic Discharge

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

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.

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

Winding Configurations

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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…

Networks and Busses

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

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

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

Conversion From Decimal Numeration

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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…

Multiple-input Gates

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

JFET Biasing Techniques

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Using an example, learn about the different bias techniques for junction field effect transistors (JFETs) like the constant voltage bias, self-bias configuration, and voltage divider biasing.

More on Spectrum Analysis

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Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…

Stripline Max Current Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle

TTL NOR and OR gates

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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…

AC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.

The S-R Latch

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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Series Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…

Bridged-Tee Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a bridged-tee attenuator.

Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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Si Lab - Zener Diode Voltage Regulator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.

Strain Gauges

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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…

TTL NAND and AND gates

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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

Conductors, Insulators, and Electron Flow

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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…

Contributors (14)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Basic AC-DC Power Supplies

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

AC Network Analysis

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

Data - Resistance & Superconductor

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Tables of specific resistance and temperature coefficient of…