As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
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.
When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…
Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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.
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
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.
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will learn about electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet and a permanent magnet.
The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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.
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