Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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.
Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…
In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
This page provides a step-by-step introduction to using the mesh…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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.
What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
This calculator will determine the square root, cube root, or nth root of a given number, x.
If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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.
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
Another type of mathematical identity, called a “property”…
Input impedance varies considerably with the circuit configuration…
What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.
Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…
