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Op-amp Circuits

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Superposition Theorem

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OpAmp Oscillator Circuits

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Battery Life Calculator

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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.

Resistor Color Code Calculator and Chart—4 Band, 5 Band, or 6 Band Resistors

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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.

Series Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…

Energy, Work, and Power

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Creating Custom Calibration Resistances

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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…

Building Series-Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…

DC Lab - Rheostat Range Limiting

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.

AC Inductor Circuits

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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…

Active Filters

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Time Constant Calculations

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Voltage and Current Calculations

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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…

Analog Lab - Op Amp Integrator

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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.

Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Calculating Electric Power

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Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…

Series-parallel R, L, and C

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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

Complex Voltage and Current Calculations

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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…

Voltage and Current Calculations

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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…

Non-Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp

Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

Basic Ohmmeter Use

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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

Battery Life Calculator

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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.

Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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Oscillator Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Pi-Match Impedance Matching Calculator

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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit

DC Motor Control Circuits

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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…

Resistors Types

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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…

Potentiometers

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Circuit Effects

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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…

DC Lab - Potentiometer Voltage Divider

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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.

Capacitor Charge and Time Constant Calculator

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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.

Electron Activity in Chemical Reactions

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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…

AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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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.

AC Lab - Induction Motor

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.

Voltage and Current in a Practical Circuit

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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…

Early Tube History

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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…

Time Constant Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Building a Differential Amplifier

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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…

Diode Switching Circuits

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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…

Design Project: Arbitrary Waveform Generator

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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…

Class B BJT Amplifiers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

How to Use Thevenin’s Theorem

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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…

Power Added Efficiency Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier

DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

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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.

The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

Some Examples with AC Circuits

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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…

Capacitance Calculator

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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.

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

Protective Relay Circuits

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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

The Triode

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De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…