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Superconducting Devices

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Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

Thyristors

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

Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

Signal Modulation

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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

Ohm’s Law (again!)

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A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Physical Effects of Electricity

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Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…

ElectroStatic Discharge

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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

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.

Skin Depth Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.

Timer Circuits

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

Electric Shock

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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

Light-Pulse Switch

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

What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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

Emergency Response

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Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…

Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

Special Diodes

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Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

“Long’’ and “Short’’ Transmission Lines

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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…

Band Theory of Solids

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Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…

Si Lab - A Simple BJT Current Mirror Circuit

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.

Field-effect-controlled Thyristors

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Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…

Digital Lab - S-R Flip-flop Using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.

Class B BJT Amplifiers

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Vectors and AC Waveforms

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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…

Wattmeter Design

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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…

Series DC Circuits Practice Worksheet with Answers

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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…

Common Antiderivatives

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AC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.

Protective Relays

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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…

Safe Practices

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If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…

Contributors (6)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Vol VI. Credits

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The following is a partial list of contributors to the current online…

Introduction to Network Theorems for Circuit Analysis

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Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…

Simple Parallel (Tank Circuit) Resonance

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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…

Impedance

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Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Full-Adder

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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…

AC Lab - Frequency Analysis

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.

Junction field-effect transistors (JFET)

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Divided Feedback

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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…

Stripline Trace Width Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating

Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

Attenuators

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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

Capacitors

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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

L-Match Impedance Matching Circuits

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This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit

Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

Contributors (12)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Autotransformers

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How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…

True, Reactive, and Apparent Power

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Reactive Power We know that reactive loads such as inductors and…