Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…
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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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…
A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…
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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This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…
Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…
A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
