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.
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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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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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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, 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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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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.
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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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.
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
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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.
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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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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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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.
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
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There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
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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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