At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…
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.
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…
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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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.
In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…
There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple transformer and learn some important transformer fundamentals including voltage step-up and step-down.
With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
This tool is designed to convert power ratios to decibel
One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
AC electromechanical meter movements come in two basic arrangements:…
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.