When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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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 build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
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Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
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To learn about electronics, you must eventually engage in hands-on experimentation. Knowledge gleaned from books alone has limited use in scientific endeavors. Troubleshooting a circuit can be as important as the knowledge gained from a properly functioning experiment.
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
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Capacitance Formula Permittivity of Dielectric …
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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…
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In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.
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As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
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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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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
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