Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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

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Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

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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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DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.

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Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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

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Soldering

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

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Low-pass Filters

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

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Electrical Connections

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

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Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

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Edge Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.

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Basic Ohmmeter Use

Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…

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Boolean Algebra

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

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Low-pass Filters

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

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Factors Affecting Inductance

There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…

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Encoders and Decoders

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

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Design Project: Power Inverter

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

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Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

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Soldering

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

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Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

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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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Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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

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Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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

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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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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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Broadside Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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

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Polyphase Power Systems

Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

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Inductance

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

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The Tetrode

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

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Counter Modulus

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Contributors (12)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Unit Conversion Calculator

Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque

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Programmable Logic Controllers

The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…

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Electrical Signal Types

With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

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Input and Output Coupling

To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

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AC Power

If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…

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Transistors, Insulated-gate Field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)

We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…

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Symmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a symmetric stripline.

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Static Electricity

What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…

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Series-parallel R, L, and C

Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…

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Component Modeling

When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…

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Insulator Breakdown Voltage

The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

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The Common-drain Amplifier (IGFET)

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AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.

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Finite-state Machine

Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…

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ElectroStatic Discharge

At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…

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Digital Logic Signals

A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…

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Sum and Product Notation

For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

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