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DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Characteristic Impedance

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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

An Electric Pendulum

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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…

Ammeter Design

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Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…

Capacitance

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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Power in Resistive and Reactive AC circuits

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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…

Basic Voltmeter Use

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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…

Special-purpose Batteries

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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…

JFET Amplifiers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Advanced Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…

Power Supply Circuits

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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…

Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

The Common-emitter Amplifier

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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

An Electric Pendulum

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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…

AC Lab - Using a Transformer to Build a 12 VAC Power Supply

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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.

Complex Voltage and Current Calculations

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There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

Practical Power Factor Correction

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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…

Electric Shock

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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

DC Lab - Voltage Divider

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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.

Superposition Theorem

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Decibel Measurements

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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

Bipolar Junction Transistors in Active Mode

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…

Analog Lab - Precision Voltage Follower Using an Op Amp

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.

Protective Relay Circuits

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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

What is the Difference Between Series and Parallel Circuits?

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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…

Series-parallel R, L, and C

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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…

Bit Grouping

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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…

Active Versus Passive Devices

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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…

Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…

Intro Lab - Nonlinear Resistance

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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.

Fundamentals of SPICE programming

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Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…

Voltmeter Design

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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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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.

Capacitance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Millman’s Theorem Revisited

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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…

Applying Ohm’s Law—Rules and Methods for Circuit Analysis

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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…

TTL NAND and AND gates

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

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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DC Lab - Capacitor Charging and Discharging

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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.

DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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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.

Review of R, X, and Z (Resistance, Reactance and Impedance)

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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…

Analog Lab - 555 Ramp Signal Generator

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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.

Open-Loop OpAmp Circuits

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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…