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 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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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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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 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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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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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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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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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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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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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, 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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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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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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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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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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Since transformers are essentially AC devices, we need to be aware of…
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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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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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…
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