One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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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.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
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This calculator allows you to solve for any of the six variables in the Friis formula for RF transmission: transmitter power, transmitter gain, receiver power, receiver gain, frequency, or distance.
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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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AC electromechanical meter movements come in two basic arrangements:…
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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle
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(“c” being a constant) RELATED…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a rectangular waveguide
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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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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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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