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 addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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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 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 circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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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 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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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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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 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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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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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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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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Inductors, like all electrical components, have limitations which must…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, you will build direct current (DC) circuits and learn fundamental electrical engineering circuit concepts.
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A Logic Gate is assigned as an elementary building block of…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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Input impedance varies considerably with the circuit configuration…
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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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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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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…
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