Factors Affecting Inductance

There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…

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Basic Ohmmeter Use

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

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Kirchhoff’s Laws

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

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Meter Check of a Diode

The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…

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Stripline Trace Width Calculator

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

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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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Symmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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

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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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Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

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Special Transformers and Applications

Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

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Encoders and Decoders

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

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Elementary Circuits

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

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Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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

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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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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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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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Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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

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Electrical Connections

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

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Contributors (8)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Valence and Crystal Structure

Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…

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The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

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Decoder

A decoder is a circuit that changes a code into a set of signals. It…

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Edge Coupled Stripline Impedance Calculator

A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.

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Trigonometric Equivalencies

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Troubleshooting Series and Parallel Circuits

The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…

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Clamper Circuits

The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…

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Rectifier Circuits

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

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Capacitor Quirks

As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…

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Coil Inductance Calculator

This calculator computes the inductance of a wire coil.

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JFET Amplifiers

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

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Derivative of a Constant

    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

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Complex Number Arithmetic

Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…

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Binary Subtraction

We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…

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Rules for Derivatives

Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

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Digital Communication

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

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Basic Operational Amplifiers

Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…

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Wiring Color Codes

Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…

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AC phase

If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…

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