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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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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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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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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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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.
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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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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of 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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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of voltage…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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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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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…
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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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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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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will learn about electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet and a permanent magnet.
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With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
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The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…
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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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