Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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

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Low-pass Filters

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

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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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Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

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

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Electrical Connections

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

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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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Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

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Soldering

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

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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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Soldering

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

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Inductance

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

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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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Simple Circuits

Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…

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Encoders and Decoders

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

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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

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Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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

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Kirchhoff’s Laws

Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

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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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Questions relating to project management

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Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

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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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Basic Voltmeter Use

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

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Rectifying Diodes

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

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Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

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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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Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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

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Basic Ammeter Use

Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…

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Basic Voltmeter Use

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

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The Junction Field-effect Transistor (JFET) as a Switch

Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…

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Flash ADC

Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…

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Digital Display Circuits

What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

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Peak Voltage Calculator

The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.

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Polyphase Power Systems

Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

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More on AC “polarity”

Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…

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Binary Count Sequence

If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…

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Coefficients of Specific Resistance

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

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Precise Diode Circuits

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

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Switches

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

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Electrical Noise and Interference

Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

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Time Constant Circuits

Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

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Ohm’s Law - How Voltage, Current, and Resistance Relate

The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…

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Radar Maximum Range Calculator

This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect

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DC Metrology

Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…

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Tracking ADC

A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…

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Field-effect-controlled Thyristors

Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…

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Gas Discharge Tubes

If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…

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Timer Circuits

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

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