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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 series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.
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Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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This calculator allows you to solve for any of the six variables in the Friis formula for RF transmission: transmitter power, transmitter gain, receiver power, receiver gain, frequency, or distance.
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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.
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
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