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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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
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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, 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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In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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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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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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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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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
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This calculator is designed to compute for the parameters needed to design a L-Match Impedance Circuit
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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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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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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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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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…
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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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(“c” being a constant) RELATED…
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Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…
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What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…
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Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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Additive Identity a + 0 = a Multiplicative Identity 1a = a…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
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Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…
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