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Class B BJT Amplifiers

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Signal Modulation

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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…

Design Project: Signal Generator

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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…

Si Lab - JFET Current Regulator

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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.

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.

The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

Rectifier Circuits

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Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Algebraic Equation Manipulation for Electric Circuits

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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…

Inductor Voltage and Current Relationship

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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

The Common-base Amplifier

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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…

Ohmmeter Design

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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…

Electric Fields and Capacitance

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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…

Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Mesh Current Method (Loop Current Method)

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This page provides a step-by-step introduction to using the mesh…

Delta and Wye 3-Phase Circuits

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Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…

Copper Wire Gauge Table

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Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…

Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Applications of Resonance

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So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…

Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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

Light-Pulse Switch

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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

Superposition Theorem

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

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Fail-safe Design

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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…

Finite-state Machine

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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

Winding Configurations

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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…

Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…

Resistors Types

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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…

Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

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Write the following exponential expressions in expanded form: 101 =…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…

Inductor Commutating Circuits

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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…

Branch Current Method Analysis

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The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…

Delta-Sigma ADC

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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…

Practical considerations - Digital Communication

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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…

Special-output Gates

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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…

Binary Count Sequence

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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…

Active Filters

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RF Power Conversion Calculator

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

Slope (integrating) ADC

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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

DC Bridge Circuits

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Intro Lab - How to Use an Ohmmeter to Measure Resistance

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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.

Susceptance and Admittance

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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.

Millman’s Theorem

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

DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

Stepper Motors

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Monostable Multivibrators

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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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AC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector with Audio Output

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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.

Stripline Max Current Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle

Voltage and Current in a Practical Circuit

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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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Example Circuits and Netlists

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The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…