Inductors, like all electrical components, have limitations which must…
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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 use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
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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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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
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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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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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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…
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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 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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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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A tool designed to compute the values to be used in a T-match Impedance Circuit
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable
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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.
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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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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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Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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