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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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…
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Inductors, like all electrical components, have limitations which must…
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The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…
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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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This chapter explores the response of capacitors and inductors to…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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Definition of a Factorial Denoted by the symbol “!” after…
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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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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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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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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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
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Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.
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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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