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Display Tubes

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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…

Digital Lab - 7-segment LED Display

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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.

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

Karnaugh Mapping

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

Series LED Resistor Calculator

Tools

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.

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Design Project: LED Stroboscope

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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…

Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

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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.

Optoelectronic Devices

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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…

Digital Lab - Digital Combination Lock

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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.

Digital Lab - 7-segment LED Display

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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.

555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

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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.

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

555 Lab - Advanced Red LED Flasher

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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.

Display Tubes

Textbook

In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…

Digital Lab - 10-bit Flashing LED Sequencer

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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.

Si Lab - Bipolar Transistor as a Switch

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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.

Convert MCD to Lumens

Tools

This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.

555 Lab - Red LED Flasher

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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.

Special-purpose Diodes

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

Counters

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

Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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

Basic Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…

The DIAC

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Like all diodes, Shockley diodes are unidirectional devices; that is,…

pH Measurement

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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

Boolean Algebra

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

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…

Symmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a symmetric stripline.

The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

DC Lab - Rheostat Range Limiting

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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.

Quantum Devices

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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…

Thyristors

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

Amplifier Gain

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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…

Radio Circuits

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

Coax Impedance Calculator

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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.

Stepper Motors

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

Parallel Circuit Rules

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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…