Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…

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Permeability and Saturation

The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…

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Example Circuits and Netlists

The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…

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Current Divider Circuits and the Current Divider Formula

A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…

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Parallel Resistor-Inductor Circuits

Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…

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Electric Fields and Capacitance

Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…

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Solving Series and Parallel Circuits With the Table Method and Ohm’s Law

The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…

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Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…

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Signal Modulation

A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

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Switched Capacitor Circuitry

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Capacitance

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Capacitors and Calculus

Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

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Inductance

∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

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Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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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How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

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Complex Voltage and Current Calculations

There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…

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Active Loads in Amplifier Circuits

We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…

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Building Series-Parallel Resistor Circuits

Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…

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Insulator Breakdown Voltage

The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

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Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…

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Simple AC Circuit Calculations

Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…

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Binary Overflow

One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…

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Inductor Transient Response

Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…

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Multimeters

Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…

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Counters

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Rules for Derivatives

Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

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Nonlinear Conduction

“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…

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Computer Simulation of Electric Circuits

Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…

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Analysis Options

AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…

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Simple Series Resonance

A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…

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AC Lab - Sensing AC Electric Fields

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.

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Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.

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Oscillator Circuits

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Converting Truth Tables into Boolean Expressions

In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…

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The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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TTL NAND and AND gates

Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

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Digital Lab - S-R Latch Using NOR Gates

In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.

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Active-mode Operation (JFET)

JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

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Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)

The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…

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Arc Flash and Arc Blast

Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

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Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.

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Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.

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Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Switched Capacitor Circuitry

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Insulator Breakdown Voltage

The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

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Wattmeter Design

Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…

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Si Lab - JFET Current Regulator

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.

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Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

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DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.

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Current Divider Circuits

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Clipper and Clamper Circuits

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Contributors (5)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline

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Data Flow

Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…

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DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

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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Other Waveshapes

As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

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The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

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Decimal versus Binary Numeration

Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

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