In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
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Many different equations used in the analysis of electric circuits may…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.
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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…
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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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Temperature coefficient (α) per degree C: Material Element/Alloy…
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Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…
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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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The structure behind ladder logic is based on the electrical ladder…
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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
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Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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