What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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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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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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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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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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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.
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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Shown here is a simplified representation of an atom: the smallest…
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
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As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
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This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).
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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…
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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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