What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
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.
Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…
If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…
The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of voltage…
The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
If we add a voltage divider to the negative feedback wiring so that…
What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…
This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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.
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
Similar in thought to the idea of the integrated circuit, tube…
There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
This calculator computes the power received by an antenna using Friis formula
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Periodic table of chemical elements.
Input impedance varies considerably with the circuit configuration…
It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
Like all diodes, Shockley diodes are unidirectional devices; that is,…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
