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Basic Voltmeter Use

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

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

Encoders and Decoders

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

Inductance

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Resistors

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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

Questions relating to project management

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Creating Custom Calibration Resistances

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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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

Microstrip Wavelength Calculator

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

Rectifying Diodes

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

Basic Electricity Worksheet

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Microstrip Inductance Calculator

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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.

Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Transistor Ratings and Packages (BJT)

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Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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

Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…

Potential Pitfalls

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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…

Encoders and Decoders

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

The Thyristor

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A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

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

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

Tubes versus Semiconductors

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Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…

Contributors (3)

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<p> Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological…

Why digital?

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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…

Voltage Signal Systems

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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…

Protective Relay Circuits

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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

Op-Amp Data

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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…

Kelvin (4-wire) Resistance Measurement

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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…

Electrons and “holes’’

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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…

Design Project: Arbitrary Waveform Generator

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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…

Impedance

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

Trigonometric Derivatives

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Active-mode Operation (BJT)

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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…

Inductors

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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…

Non-right Triangle Trigonometry

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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…

Series Circuit Rules

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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…

Analog Lab - Op Amp Integrator

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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.

Power Added Efficiency Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier

Contributors (3)

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<p> Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological…

Impedance Transformation

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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

Optical Data Communication

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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…

Counters

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

Special-purpose Batteries

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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…

Potential Pitfalls

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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…

More on AC “polarity”

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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…

Three-phase Transformer Circuits

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

Metric Notation

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The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…

Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…

Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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

JFET Quirks

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