Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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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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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.
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Capacitance Formula Permittivity of Dielectric …
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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This calculator calculates the resistivity of a component based on its resistance value, length, and cross-sectional area.
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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
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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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In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
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Figure below shows a photodiode amplifier for measuring low levels of…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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For extremely high-frequency applications (above 1 GHz), the…
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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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Many different equations used in the analysis of electric circuits may…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
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