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Low-pass Filters

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

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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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.

Electrical Connections

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

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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

Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

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

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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

Soldering

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

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

Trace Resistance Calculator

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This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace

Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

Basic Oscilloscope Operation

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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…

Heat Sink Calculator

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This calculator helps determine the maximum temperature a device can withstand

Electrical Connections

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

Design Project: Power Inverter

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

Microstrip Trace Width Calculator

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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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

Stripline Trace Width Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating

Basic Ohmmeter Use

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

DC Lab - Build Your Own Multimeter

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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.

Basic Electricity Worksheet

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

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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

Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

Rectifying Diodes

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

Stripline Max Current Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle

Elementary Circuits

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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…

Basic Voltmeter Use

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

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

Simple Circuits

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

Intro Lab - Nonlinear Resistance

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will compare the resistance of a lamp filament in its on and off states and learn about nonlinear resistances by applying Ohm's law.

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Trace Resistance Calculator

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This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace

Intro Lab - Circuit With a Switch

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

Conductor Size

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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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Vol V. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Practical Considerations of ADC Circuits

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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…

Reluctance Motor

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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

Analysis Techniques for Series Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…

Biasing Techniques (BJT)

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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…

Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

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

Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Convert MCD to Lumens

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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.

Binary Addition

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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…

Atomic Structure

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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…