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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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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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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.
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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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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 the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.
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The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator using a 555 timer and learn the theory of operation of the 555 timer when configured as an astable multivibrator.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…
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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…
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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
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Solid Copper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…
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Introduction This third volume of the book series Lessons In Electric…
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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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It was discovered centuries ago that certain types of materials would…
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This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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