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Applying Ohm’s Law—Rules and Methods for Circuit Analysis

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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…

Electrical Energy Calculator

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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.

Component Modeling

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When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…

555 Lab - Advanced Red LED Flasher

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.

Regulated Power Sources

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Copper Wire Ampacity Table

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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…

What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

Magnetic Fields and Inductance

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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…

AC Bridge Circuits

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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…

Active Loads in Amplifier Circuits

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

Pi-Match Impedance Matching Calculator

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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit

Wiring Color Codes Infographic

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Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Vol II. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Resistors Types

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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…

Ohm’s Law Practice Worksheet With Answers

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

Capacitor Transient Response

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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

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

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

Circuit Simplification Examples

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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

Systems of Numeration

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Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…

Polarity of voltage drops

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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…

Wire Types and Sizes

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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…

What is the Difference Between Series and Parallel Circuits?

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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…

MESFETs

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Oscillator Circuits

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Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

Series and Parallel Component Equivalent Values

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Series and Parallel Resistances     Series and Parallel…

Peak, Average, and RMS Measurements

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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…

Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

Design Project: Intercom System

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Design a passive circuit that will create a "split” ( V/-V) power…

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

The Common-emitter Amplifier

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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…

Common Derivatives

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

High-Reliability Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…

TTL Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) as a Switch

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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…

Microwave Tubes

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For extremely high-frequency applications (above 1 GHz), the…

Strain Gauges

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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…

Intro Lab - How to Use an Ohmmeter to Measure Resistance

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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.

DC Lab - Potentiometer Voltage Divider

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.

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

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The table method provides a structured methodology for ensuring you…

Finite-length Transmission Lines

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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…

What is a Series-Parallel Circuit?

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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…

Mutual Inductors

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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…

Ammeter Design

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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…

Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

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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.

Electrical Energy Calculator

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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.

Microprocessor Programming

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What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…

Clipper Circuits

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A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…

Input and Output Coupling

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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

The “Buffer” Gate

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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…

Noise Figure and Noise Temperature Calculator

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This calculator computes the noise figure and noise temperature in a system

Conductors, Insulators, and Electron Flow

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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…

Hand Calculator Use

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To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…

Enhancement-type IGFETs

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Principles of Radio

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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…