No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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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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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
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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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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
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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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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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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, 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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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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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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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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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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The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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Starting with circle A in a rectangular A’ universe in figure…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
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Solving for x in a given polynomial equation “ax2 + bx + c…
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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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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
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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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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
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