Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…
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…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Power transformer, 120VAC step-down to 12VAC,…
The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a tank circuit
Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
Logic gate circuits are designed to input and output only two types of…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two NPN transistors—models 2N2222 or…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One NPN transistor—model 2N2222 or 2N3403…
A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers
While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
In the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4017 decade counter/divider (Radio Shack catalog…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4011 quad NAND gate (Radio Shack catalog #…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Low-voltage AC power supply (6-volt output)…
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more that…
As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
