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Soldering

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

Textbook

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

Electrical Connections

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

Textbook

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

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Low-pass Filters

Textbook

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

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

Textbook

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.

Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

Textbook

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.

Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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

Factors Affecting Inductance

Textbook

There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…

Polyphase Power Systems

Worksheets - Assembly

Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Edge Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

Tools

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

Low-pass Filters

Textbook

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

Basic Ohmmeter Use

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Symmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

Tools

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

Creating Custom Calibration Resistances

Textbook

Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…

Rectifying Diodes

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Special Transformers and Applications

Textbook

Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

Textbook

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

Boolean Algebra

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

Basic Electricity Worksheet

Worksheets - Assembly

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

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

Textbook

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

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

Tools

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

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

Tools

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

Meter Check of a Diode

Textbook

The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…

Ohm’s Law (again!)

Textbook

A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…

Vol I. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Analog Lab - High-impedance Voltmeter

Textbook

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.

Capacitive Reactance

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

Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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

Negative Feedback

Textbook

If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…

Time Constant Calculations

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

Shock Current Path

Textbook

As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…

Contactors

Textbook

All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…

How to Use Thevenin’s Theorem

Textbook

This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

Textbook

A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

Rectifying Diodes

Worksheets - Assembly

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

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

Textbook

When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

Mutual Inductance

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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

Logic Simplification With Karnaugh Maps

Textbook

The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…

More on Spectrum Analysis

Textbook

Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…

The Command-line Interface

Textbook

If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…

Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

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

Square Root, Cube Root, and Nth Root Calculator

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This calculator will determine the square root, cube root, or nth root of a given number, x.

Synchronous Counters

Textbook

What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…