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 high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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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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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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If two coils of wire are brought into close proximity with each other…
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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Introduction This third volume of the book series Lessons In Electric…
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In this introduction to parallel resistance circuits, we will explain…
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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
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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 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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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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It is imperative to understand that the type of numeration system used…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
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Product of Powers Property am an = am+n Power of a Product…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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Testing a JFET with a multimeter might seem to be a relatively easy…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.
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Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
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Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.
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In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…
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Using an example, learn about the different bias techniques for junction field effect transistors (JFETs) like the constant voltage bias, self-bias configuration, and voltage divider biasing.
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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
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Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
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