The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
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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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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
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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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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! A 5 H inductor is subjected to an electric…
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This calculator computes the inductance of a wire coil.
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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
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Product of Powers Property am an = am+n Power of a Product…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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Additive Identity a + 0 = a Multiplicative Identity 1a = a…
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A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…
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If vectors with uncommon angles are added, their magnitudes (lengths)…
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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
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A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
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