DC Lab - Build Your Own Multimeter

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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Re-drawing Complex Schematics

Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

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Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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

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AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.

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Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…

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Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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

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Microstrip Crosstalk Calculator

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

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Low-pass Filters

By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…

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Meter Check of a Diode

The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…

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Microstrip Trace Width Calculator

This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip

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Minterm vs Maxterm Solution

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

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Basic Oscilloscope Operation

An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…

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Soldering

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

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Microstrip Wavelength Calculator

A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.

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Stripline Max Current Calculator

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

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Factors Affecting Inductance

There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…

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Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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

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Elementary Circuits

In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…

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Encoders and Decoders

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

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Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

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Three-phase Transformer Circuits

Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…

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Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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

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Decibel Measurements

During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

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Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

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DC Lab - Voltage Divider

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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Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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

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Karnaugh Mapping

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

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Coefficients of Specific Resistance

Specific resistance at 20o C:  Material Element/Alloy ohm-cmil/ft…

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AC Lab - LC Tank Circuit

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.

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Logarithms

Definition of a Logarithm     “log” denotes a…

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Parallel Circuit Rules

Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…

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Resistor Color Codes

Try out our Resistor Color Code Calculator in our Tools section.…

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Arc Flash and Arc Blast

Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

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Electrical Connections

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

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DIP Gate Packaging

Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…

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What is the Relationship Between Conductance and Resistance?

The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…

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TTL NAND and AND gates

Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

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Negative Binary Numbers

With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

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Step-up and Step-down Transformers

So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…

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Shift Registers: Serial-in, Parallel-out (SIPO) Conversion

A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…

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General Troubleshooting Tips

When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…

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Combination Tubes

Similar in thought to the idea of the integrated circuit, tube…

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AC Capacitor Circuits

Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

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Design Project: Voltmeter

The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…

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Digital Communication

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

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Hysteresis

Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…

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Amplifier Gain

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

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Safety Grounding

In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

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Bipolar Junction Transistors in Active Mode

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

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Reluctance Motor

The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

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History of SPICE

SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…

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Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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The Tetrode

As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…

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Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…

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Edge Coupled Stripline Impedance Calculator

A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.

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Digital Lab - S-R Latch With Enable Input using NAND Gates

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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Q Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit

The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…

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Converting Between Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits

Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…

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Measurements of AC Magnitude

So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…

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