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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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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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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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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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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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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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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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, 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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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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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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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
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In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.
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The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.
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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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