“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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.
Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Operational amplifier, model 1458 or 353…
All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries One NPN…
So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
A helpful analogy for understanding divided feedback amplifier…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…
PARTS AND MATERIALS AC power source: 120VAC Capacitor, 3.3 µF…
Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…
Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…
This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two AAA Batteries Battery Clip (Radio Shack…
Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…
Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.
PARTS AND MATERIALS Electromagnet from previous experiment Permanent…
If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…
Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…
The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…
The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
