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Ammeter Design

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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

Time Constant Calculations

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JFET Amplifiers

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Elementary Circuits

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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…

Superposition Theorem

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DC Lab - Series Batteries

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.

Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Current Mirror BJTs

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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…

555 Lab - Monostable Multivibrator (One-shot)

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.

Fuses

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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…

Batteries

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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…

Magnetic Fields and Inductance

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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…

Algebraic Equation Manipulation for Electric Circuits

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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…

Diode Switching Circuits

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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…

Bipolar Junction Transistors

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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…

Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

Electromechanical Relay Logic

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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…

Energy, Work, and Power

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

AC Metrology

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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…

Resistors

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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…

Basic Electromagnetic Relays

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Capacitance

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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

Timer Circuits

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DC Branch Current Analysis

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Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…

TTL Logic Gates

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

Intro Lab - How to Use an Ammeter to Measure Current

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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.

Digital Communication

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Parallel Resistor Calculator

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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.

DC Lab - Current Divider

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.

Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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Phasor Mathematics

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Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…

Active-mode Operation (BJT)

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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

Miscellaneous Diode Applications

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Creating Custom Calibration Resistances

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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…

Switches, Hand Actuated

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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…

Voltmeter Design

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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…

TTL NAND and AND gates

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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits

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Vol III. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Introduction to Karnaugh Mapping

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Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…

Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL)

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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…

OpAmp Oscillator Circuits

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Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

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

Introduction to Solid-state Device Theory

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This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…

Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

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Practical considerations - Digital Communication

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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…

JFET Amplifiers

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Connectors

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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…

Protective Relays

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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Static Electricity

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