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Digital Display Circuits

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

Special-purpose Diodes

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

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.

Thyristors

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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.

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.

Thyristor Application Circuits

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

Simple Circuits

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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…

Light-Pulse Switch

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

AC Motor Theory

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

Switches

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

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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

Thyristors

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

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

Special-purpose Diodes

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

Digital Display Circuits

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

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

Non-Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp

Inductor Commutating Circuits

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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…

Solving Simultaneous Equations: The Substitution Method and the Addition Method

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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…

Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

Nonlinear Conduction

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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…

The “Buffer” Gate

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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…

Square Root, Cube Root, and Nth Root Calculator

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This calculator will determine the square root, cube root, or nth root of a given number, x.

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

High-pass Filters

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A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…

Servo Motor Systems

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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

Trigonometric Equivalencies

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Practical Considerations of ADC Circuits

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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…

Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Waveguides

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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

Principles of Radio

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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

Special-purpose Batteries

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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…

555 Lab - Schmitt Trigger

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.

The Thyristor

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A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…