In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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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.
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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
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When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
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This calculator helps determine the maximum temperature a device can withstand
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The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…
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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…
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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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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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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…
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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
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