If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…
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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
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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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…
Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will compare the resistance of a lamp filament in its on and off states and learn about nonlinear resistances by applying Ohm's law.
Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…
Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.
A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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.
Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
