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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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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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, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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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, 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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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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 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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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 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 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 addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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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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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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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 circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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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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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…
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Periodic table of chemical elements.
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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