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.
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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.
Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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.
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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.
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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.
What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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.
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.
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
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.
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 to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
Periodic table of chemical elements.
This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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.
If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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.
