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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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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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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Factoring Identities : a2 - b2 = (a + b) (a - b) a2 + 2ab + b2…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
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A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…
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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating
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As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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