Practical Considerations - Batteries

When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…

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Characteristic Impedance

Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…

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Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

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Input and Output Coupling

To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

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Insulator Breakdown Voltage

The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

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Capacitor Transient Response

Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

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Resistors

Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…

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Basic Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…

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Capacitance

Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

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DC Lab - Parallel Batteries

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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Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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Bandpass Filter Calculator

This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.

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Introduction to Complex Numbers

If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…

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Wiring Color Codes

Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…

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Pi Attenuator Calculator

This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.

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Transistor Ratings and Packages (BJT)

Like all electrical and electronic components, transistors are limited…

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Polyphase Motor Design

AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

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Wire Types and Sizes

Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…

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Protective Relay Circuits

Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

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Capacitors and Calculus

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

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Transistor Biasing Calculations

Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…

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Common Derivatives

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The Unijunction Transistor (UJT)

Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…

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RF Power Ratio Conversion Calculator

This tool is designed to convert power ratios to decibel

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Contributors (4)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Power Conversion Circuits

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

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Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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Boolean Arithmetic

Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…

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Series and Parallel Capacitors

When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitance is…

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Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)

The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…

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Contributors (12)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Peak, Average, and RMS Measurements

How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…

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Static Electricity

It was discovered centuries ago that certain types of materials would…

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Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

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BJT Quirks

An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…

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Vol II. Credits

All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

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Polyphase Motor Design

AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

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Permissive and Interlock Circuits

A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…

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Slope (integrating) ADC

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

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Step-up and Step-down Transformers

So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…

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Trigonometry for AC Circuits

Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…

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Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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

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Electrical Noise and Interference

Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

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Counter Modulus

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Using Multiple Combinational Circuits

As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…

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Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

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Practical Power Factor Correction

When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…

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Tubes versus Semiconductors

Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…

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Analog Lab - Class B Audio Amplifier

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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Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

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Free Space Path Loss Calculator

This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.

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