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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.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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

Digital Display Circuits

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

Display Tubes

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Design Project: LED Stroboscope

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

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.

Special-purpose Diodes

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

Convert MCD to Lumens

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

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.

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 Display Circuits

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

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.

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…

Display Tubes

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

Optoelectronic Devices

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Series LED Resistor Calculator

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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.

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.

Basic Ammeter Use

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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…

Flip-Flop Circuits

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

Susceptance and Admittance

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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

Polar Form and Rectangular Form Notation for Complex Numbers

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

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

Millman’s Theorem

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

Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Networks and Busses

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

The Common-source Amplifier (JFET)

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Physical Effects of Electricity

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Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…

Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Rules for Limits

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Capacitor Sizing Equation

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Capacitance Formula     Permittivity of Dielectric  …

Derivative of a Constant

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    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

What is a Meter?

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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…

555 Lab - Introduction to the 555 Timer IC

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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test mixed-signal analog and digital circuits using the versatile 555 timer IC. These projects will teach you about RC time constants, duty cycle, transistor current drive, LEDs, voltage doublers, and more.

Design Project: Telegraph System

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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

Capacitor Charge and Time Constant Calculator

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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.

Trigonometric Derivatives

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Positive Feedback

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As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…