Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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.
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.
A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…
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.
Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…
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.
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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…
Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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.
A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…
What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
The following is a partial list of contributors to the current online…
Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…
Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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.
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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…
Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit
Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
Reactive Power We know that reactive loads such as inductors and…
