Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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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.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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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.
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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
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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.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…
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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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“With Electronics Workbench, you can create circuit schematics…
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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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