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Shock Current Path

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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…

Basic AC-DC Power Supplies

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

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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

How to Use Thevenin’s Theorem

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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…

Ammeter Design

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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…

Rectifying Diodes

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The TRIAC

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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…

AC Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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Amplifiers

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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…

Counters

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

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

Universal Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Parallel-out

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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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Design Project: Telegraph System

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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

Digital Lab - Basic 2-Input NAND Gate Circuit

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test a 2-input digital NAND gate with LED indicators and learn to read pinout diagrams, power a digital IC, connect unused inputs and outputs, and use pulldown resistors.

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

Calculus for Electric Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

The Junction Field-effect Transistor (JFET) as a Switch

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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…

Peak, Average, and RMS Measurements

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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…

Contactors

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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Conductors and Insulators

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

DC Lab - Rheostat Range Limiting

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.

Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

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

AC Lab - LC Tank Circuit

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.

Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

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.

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Inductor Voltage and Current Relationship

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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

Contributors (16)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Inductor Commutating Circuits

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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…

Modern Nonmechanical Memory

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Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

The Shockley Diode

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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…

Intro Lab - Electromagnetic Induction

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will learn about electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet and a permanent magnet.

Logic Simplification With Karnaugh Maps

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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…

Polarity of voltage drops

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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…

PN Junctions

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Diode Ratings

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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…

555 Lab - Monostable Multivibrator (One-shot)

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.

Copper Wire Gauge Table

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Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…