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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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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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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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
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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.
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog voltage comparator circuit and learn how open-loop operational amplifiers function.
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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.
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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle
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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
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As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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