If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.
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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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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.
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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
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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.
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
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