In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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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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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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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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 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 semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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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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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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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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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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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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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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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 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 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, 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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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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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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The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.
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