In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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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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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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Periodic table of chemical elements.
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.
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Temperature coefficient (α) per degree C: Material Element/Alloy…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…
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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…
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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple transformer and learn some important transformer fundamentals including voltage step-up and step-down.
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Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.
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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip
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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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