In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
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A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! A 5 H inductor is subjected to an electric…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
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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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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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AC electromechanical meter movements come in two basic arrangements:…
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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
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You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…
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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…
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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
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Using an example, learn about the different bias techniques for junction field effect transistors (JFETs) like the constant voltage bias, self-bias configuration, and voltage divider biasing.
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…
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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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