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This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.
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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.
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.
Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
Insulated gate field-effect transistors are unipolar devices just like…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…
Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.
Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…
In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…
Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
