A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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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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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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The Inductance Formula Wheeler’s formulas for…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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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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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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Another strategy for addressing the problem of secondary electrons…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…
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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
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