In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.
When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…
We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…
Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…
The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
To learn about electronics, you must eventually engage in hands-on experimentation. Knowledge gleaned from books alone has limited use in scientific endeavors. Troubleshooting a circuit can be as important as the knowledge gained from a properly functioning experiment.
It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
