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Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…

Finite-length Transmission Lines

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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…

Single-phase Power Systems

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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…

Junction field-effect transistors (JFET)

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

Timer Circuits

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

Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

Zener Diodes

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

Energy, Work, and Power

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Specific Resistance of Conductors

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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

Practical Considerations - Transformers

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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…

True, Reactive, and Apparent Power

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Reactive Power We know that reactive loads such as inductors and…

Attenuators

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

Pulse Width Modulation

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

JFET Amplifiers

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

Design Project: Audio Media-Based Signal Generator

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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

CMOS Gate Circuitry

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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

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.

Ring Counters

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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…

Three-phase Power Systems

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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…

Single-phase Power Systems

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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

Servo Motor Systems

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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

Voltage and Current in a Practical Circuit

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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Serial-out (PISO) Conversion

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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…

Inductors

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! A 5 H inductor is subjected to an electric…

Time Constant Circuits

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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Universal Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Parallel-out

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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…

Solving Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge Circuits Via Mesh Current Method

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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…

Capacitor Transient Response

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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

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

Power Added Efficiency Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier

Power Supply Circuits

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

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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Building Series-Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…

Memory Devices

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

Si Lab - Full-wave Center-tap Rectifier

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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.

RF Power Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa

Magnetism

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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…

Other Waveshapes

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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

Algebraic Equation Manipulation for Electric Circuits

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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

Basic Ohmmeter Use

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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Demultiplexers

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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…

Binary Math

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Converting Between Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits

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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

Biasing Techniques (JFET)

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Introduction to Junction Field-effect Transistors (JFET)

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A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls current with the…

Mesh Current Method (Loop Current Method)

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This page provides a step-by-step introduction to using the mesh…