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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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
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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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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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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 mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
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This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
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Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
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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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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
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Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…
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“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…
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