The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enable input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4011 quad NAND gate (Radio Shack catalog #…
When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 6-volt battery Magnetic compass Small permanent…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…
In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6 volt batteries One capacitor, 0.1 µF,…
This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.
PARTS AND MATERIALS Audio detector with headphones Electromagnet coil…
If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries One NPN…
This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit
Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…
A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
Temperature coefficient (α) per degree C: Material Element/Alloy…
When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
Analog circuits are circuits dealing with signals free to vary from…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4001 quad NOR gate (Radio Shack catalog #…
Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…
Definition of a Logarithm “log” denotes a…
