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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.

Special-purpose Diodes

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

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.

Thyristors

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

Digital Display Circuits

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

Static Electricity

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

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.

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

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.

Thyristors

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

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.

AC Motor Theory

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

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.

Light-Pulse Switch

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

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.

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.

Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

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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.

Switches

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

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.

Rectifier Circuits

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

AC phase

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

Special-purpose Diodes

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

Computational Circuits

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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…

What is a Meter?

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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…

Bandpass Filter Calculator

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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.

Biasing Techniques (IGFET)

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Power Conversion Circuits

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

EIRP Calculator

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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna

Inductive Reactance

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

Simple AC Circuit Calculations

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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.

Contributors (14)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Latch Circuits

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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…

Metric Notation

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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.

DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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Rectifying Diodes

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

AC Lab - PC Oscilloscope

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use a PC-based oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn basic oscilloscope operation.