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Basic AC-DC Power Supplies

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Shock Current Path

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

Mutual Inductance

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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

Example Circuits and Netlists

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The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…

Capacitors

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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…

Power Supply Circuits

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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

Advanced Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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

555 Lab - Schmitt Trigger

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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.

Input and Output Coupling

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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

Capacitive Reactance

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Battery Construction

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

Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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Negative Feedback

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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…

Electric Shock

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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

Power in Resistive and Reactive AC circuits

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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…

Rectifying Diodes

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Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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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.

IGFET Amplifiers

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Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Switches, Hand Actuated

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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…

Contributors (6)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Band-stop Filters

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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.

Trigonometry for AC Circuits

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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…

Vol V. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Diode Switching Circuits

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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…

Boolean Rules for Simplification

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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…

AC Metrology

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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…

Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

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It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…

Non-Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp

Si Lab - Half-wave Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.

The D Latch

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Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…

Resistance, Reactance, and Impedance

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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…

JFET Quirks

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Computational Circuits

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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…