Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
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Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers
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Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…
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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
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Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law
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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
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While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
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