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.
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.
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.
SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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.
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 Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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.
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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.
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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.
The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…
The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…
A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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.
Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…
Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line
Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
