Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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.
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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.
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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…
Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
There was some historic crude, but usable were some historic crude,…
It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…
It was discovered centuries ago that certain types of materials would…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.
Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…
