Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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.
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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.
What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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.
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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.
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.
This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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.
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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.
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.
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.
In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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.
An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…