Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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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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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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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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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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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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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of voltage…
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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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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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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…
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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…
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“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…
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The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…
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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…
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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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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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What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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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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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.
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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…
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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
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This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.
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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
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We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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