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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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…
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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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This calculator computes the inductance of a wire coil.
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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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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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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…
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A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…
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To learn about electronics, you must eventually engage in hands-on experimentation. Knowledge gleaned from books alone has limited use in scientific endeavors. Troubleshooting a circuit can be as important as the knowledge gained from a properly functioning experiment.
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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
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Like all diodes, Shockley diodes are unidirectional devices; that is,…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.
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For bipolar junction transistors, the fundamental measure of…
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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…
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The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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Learn about junction field effect transistors (JFETs), their equations, and how to model and simulate JFETs in LTspice.
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.
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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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