To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…
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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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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.
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…
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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.
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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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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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…
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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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
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A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…
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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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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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This chapter explores the response of capacitors and inductors to…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.
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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…
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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…
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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…
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“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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The structure behind ladder logic is based on the electrical ladder…
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Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.
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