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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…
The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…
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Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
Logic gate circuits are designed to input and output only two types of…
Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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PARTS AND MATERIALS One 12AX7 dual triode vacuum tube Two power…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Four 6 volt batteries Operational amplifier,…
This chapter explores the response of capacitors and inductors to…
An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6 volt batteries Capacitor, 0.1 µF…
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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…
NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
Like all diodes, Shockley diodes are unidirectional devices; that is,…
It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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