In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.
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This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.
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In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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Design a passive circuit that will create a "split” ( V/-V) power…
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If some percentage of an amplifier’s output signal is connected…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…
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Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
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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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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
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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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Try out our Resistor Color Code Calculator in our Tools section.…
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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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Similar in thought to the idea of the integrated circuit, tube…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
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A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…
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Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
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If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…
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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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