What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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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.
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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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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.
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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
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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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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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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.
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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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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.
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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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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Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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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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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
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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.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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Another strategy for addressing the problem of secondary electrons…
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If vectors with uncommon angles are added, their magnitudes (lengths)…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
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It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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Learn the Power Formula We’ve seen the formula for determining…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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