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In this introduction to parallel resistance circuits, we will explain…
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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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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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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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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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…
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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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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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A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…
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When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a rectangular waveguide
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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.
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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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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
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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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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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