Basic AC-DC Power Supplies

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

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Shock Current Path

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

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Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…

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Power Density Calculator

A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

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Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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

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Special-purpose Batteries

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

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Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

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Static Electricity

What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…

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555 Lab - Schmitt Trigger

In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.

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Attenuators

What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

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PN Junctions

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Digital Lab - Introduction

In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.

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Pulse Width Modulation

Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

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Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

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Polarity of voltage drops

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

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Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.

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Kirchhoff’s Laws

Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

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Multiplexers and Demultiplexers

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

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AC Motor Theory

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

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Capacitive Reactance

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Sources of Electricity

What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

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Peak Detector

A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…

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Analog Lab - 555 Ramp Signal Generator

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.

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Optothyristors

Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…

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Soldering

Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

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Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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Si Lab - Simple Op Amp

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.

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Parallel Resistor-Inductor Circuits

Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…

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Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…

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Network Topology

Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…

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Resistivity Calculator

This calculator calculates the resistivity of a component based on its resistance value, length, and cross-sectional area.

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Oscillator Circuits

Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…

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Introduction to Complex Numbers

If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…

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The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

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Switch Types

Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…

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Attenuators

What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

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DC Lab - Capacitor Charging and Discharging

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.

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Inductance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor

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DC Circuit Equations and Laws

Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law    …

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Design Project: Event Counter

If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…

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Snell’s Law Calculator

Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.

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