Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
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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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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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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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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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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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If two coils of wire are brought into close proximity with each other…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.
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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.
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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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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
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A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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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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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.
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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…
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