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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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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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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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Specific resistance at 20o C: Material Element/Alloy ohm-cmil/ft…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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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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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
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Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will learn about electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet and a permanent magnet.
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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.
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
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A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…
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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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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.
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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