What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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 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 a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
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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 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 control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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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 addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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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 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, 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 circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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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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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.
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Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
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Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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