Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
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When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, 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.
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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…
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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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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.
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
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Power measurement in AC circuits can be quite a bit more complex than…
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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…
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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.
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How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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Tables of specific resistance and temperature coefficient of…
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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
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As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.
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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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The time constant of a series RC circuit is the product of the resistance and capacitance. Given two of the three values—resistance, capacitance, or RC time constant—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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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.
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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