Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…
One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
Inductors, like all electrical components, have limitations which must…
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Periodic table of chemical elements.
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…
The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…
Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…
Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier
Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…
Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…
Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…
Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.
