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Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Thyristors

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Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

555 Lab - Advanced Red LED Flasher

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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.

Parallel Resistor Calculator

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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.

Static Electricity

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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…

Digital Lab - 10-bit Flashing LED Sequencer

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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.

Series LED Resistor Calculator

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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.

Light-Pulse Switch

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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Convert MCD to Lumens

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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.

Thyristor Application Circuits

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Design Project: LED Stroboscope

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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…

555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

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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.

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Rectifier Circuits

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Thyristors

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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.

Switches

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

AC phase

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

DC Lab - Parallel Batteries

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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.

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

Parallel Resistor Calculator

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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.

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

Introduction to Combinational Logic Functions

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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…

DC Lab - Series Batteries

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.

Zener Diodes

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Impedance

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

Contributors (2)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

DC Branch Current Analysis

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Solving Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge Circuits Via Mesh Current Method

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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…

Energy, Work, and Power

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Wiring Color Codes Infographic

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Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…

Design Project: Event Counter

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If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…

Relay Construction

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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…

Complex Voltage and Current Calculations

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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…

More on Spectrum Analysis

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Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…

Hysteresis

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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…

Battery Ratings

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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…

Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…

Linear Computational Circuitry

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