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Design Project: Radio Transmitter

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Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…

High-Reliability Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…

Link Budget Calculator

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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.

Free Space Path Loss Calculator

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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

Quantum Physics

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“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…

Principles of Radio

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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

AC Bridge Circuits

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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

Practical Considerations - Inductors

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Inductors, like all electrical components, have limitations which must…

AC Circuit Equations

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Inductive Reactance     Capacitive Reactance    …

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Design Project: DC Motor

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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

Special-purpose Batteries

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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…

Design Project: Event Counter

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If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…

Metric Notation

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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…

DIP Gate Packaging

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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…

Impedance Matching With Transformers

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Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…

Vectors and AC Waveforms

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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…

Switch Types

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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…

Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

Karnaugh Mapping

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Superconductivity

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Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Power Added Efficiency Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier

Special-output Gates

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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…

Trigonometric Equivalencies

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Polar Form and Rectangular Form Notation for Complex Numbers

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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…

Series and Parallel Capacitors

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When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…

Voltage, Current, and Resistance

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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…

Series R, L, and C

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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it:  …

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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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.

Transistors, Insulated-gate Field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)

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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…

Capacitor Quirks

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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…

What is Norton’s Theorem and the Norton Equivalent Circuit?

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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…

Contributors (16)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Fundamentals of SPICE programming

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Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…

Trigonometry for AC Circuits

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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…

SPICE Models

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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

Thyristors

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Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…

Microprocessor Programming

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What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Switches

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…

Inductor Voltage and Current Relationship

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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.