What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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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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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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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.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…
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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
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Since transformers are essentially AC devices, we need to be aware of…
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Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…
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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…
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The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…
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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…
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