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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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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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 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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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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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 addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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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 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 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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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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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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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 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 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 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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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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Since transformers are essentially AC devices, we need to be aware of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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Larger Karnaugh maps reduce larger logic designs. How large is large…
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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.
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