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AC Lab - Variable Inductor

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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.

Simple AC Circuit Calculations

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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…

Differential Transistor Amplifiers

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Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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Voltage Multipliers (Doublers, Triplers, Quadruplers, and More)

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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…

Polyphase Motor Design

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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

Rectifier Circuits

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AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

AC Metrology

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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…

Attenuators

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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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.

Analog Lab - Class B Audio Amplifier

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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.

Calculating Electric Power

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Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…

Voltage Divider Calculator

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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.

Power Sources

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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…

AC Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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Introduction to Diodes And Rectifiers

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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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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.

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

RF Power Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa

Wire Self Inductance Calculator

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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.

Band-stop Filters

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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…

Active Loads in Amplifier Circuits

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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…

Resistance

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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Series and Parallel Inductors

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When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…

Practical Considerations - Transformers

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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…

Successive Approximation ADC

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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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AC Resistor Circuits (Capacitive)

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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase.  …

Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Relay Construction

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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…

Simultaneous Equations for Circuit Analysis

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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

Inductor Transient Response

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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…

Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits

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AC Lab - Induction Motor

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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.

DC Bridge Circuits

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Circuit Effects

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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…

Amplifiers

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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…

Memory with moving parts: “Drives”

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The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…

DC Transducers

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Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…

The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

DC Lab - Voltage Divider

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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.

Basic Electromagnetic Relays

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Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…

Capacitive Reactance

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Superposition Theorem

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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…

Bipolar Junction Transistors in Active Mode

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Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

pH Measurement

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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

Si Lab - Simple Op Amp

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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.

Rectangle Loop Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.

Free Space Path Loss Calculator

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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.

DIY EE Lab - Introduction to Electronics Projects

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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.

Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…