The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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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 a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
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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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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.
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It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…
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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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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…
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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
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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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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…
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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
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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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What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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Testing a JFET with a multimeter might seem to be a relatively easy…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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Specific resistance at 20o C: Material Element/Alloy ohm-cmil/ft…
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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
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