Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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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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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.
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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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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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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
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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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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
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The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
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The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…
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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…
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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
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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 calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…
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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…
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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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