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Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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

Encoders and Decoders

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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…

Microstrip Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.

Basic Ammeter Use

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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…

Minterm vs Maxterm Solution

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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.

Creating Custom Calibration Resistances

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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…

Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

Stripline Max Current Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle

Trace Resistance Calculator

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This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace

Basic Voltmeter Use

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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…

Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.

Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline

Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.

Broadside Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.

Amplifier Gain

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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…

Trigonometric Equivalencies

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Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…

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.

Intro Lab - Nonlinear Resistance

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will compare the resistance of a lamp filament in its on and off states and learn about nonlinear resistances by applying Ohm's law.

DC Lab - Precision 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.

DC Lab - Series Batteries

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.

Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Making a Venn Diagram Look Like a Karnaugh Map

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Starting with circle A in a rectangular A’ universe in figure…

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

Logic Signal Voltage Levels

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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…

DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.

Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…

Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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

Successive Approximation ADC

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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…

The J-K Flip-Flop

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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…

555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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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.

Antenna Downtilt and Coverage Calculator

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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

The Unijunction Transistor (UJT)

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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Vol I. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Voltmeter Design

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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

Early Tube History

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

Vectors and AC Waveforms

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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…

AC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector with Audio Output

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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.

Memory Devices

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

Calculus for Electric Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Electric Shock

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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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Trigonometric Equivalencies

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Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.

Slope (integrating) ADC

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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

Peak Detector

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A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…

Rules for Derivatives

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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…