Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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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.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
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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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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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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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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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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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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
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This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
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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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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…
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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
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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 helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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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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Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
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