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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 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.

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.

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

Worksheets - Safety

Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

ElectroStatic Discharge

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

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

Textbook

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 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.

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

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.

The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

Worksheets - Safety

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

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.

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.

High Voltage Ohmmeters

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

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…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

Worksheets - Safety

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

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

Tools

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

Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

Basic Electromagnetic Relays

Worksheets - Safety

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

Solving Simultaneous Equations: The Substitution Method and the Addition Method

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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…

Design Project: Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Signal Generator

Worksheets - Safety

What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…

555 Lab - Red LED Flasher

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.

DC Lab - Capacitor Charging and Discharging

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Conductor Ampacity

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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…

Digital Lab - 3-bit Binary Counter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.

Conventional Versus Electron Flow

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“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…

Integrated Circuits

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  A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…

Digital Logic With Feedback

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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…

DIY EE Lab - Introduction to Electronics Projects

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To learn about electronics, you must eventually engage in hands-on experimentation. Knowledge gleaned from books alone has limited use in scientific endeavors. Troubleshooting a circuit can be as important as the knowledge gained from a properly functioning experiment.

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…

AC phase

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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…

Rules for Derivatives

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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

Wires and Connections

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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…

VSWR / Return Loss Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line

Mutual Inductors

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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…

Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…