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Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

Characteristic Impedance

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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…

Voltage and Current Calculations

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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

Transistor Biasing Calculations

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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…

Diode Switching Circuits

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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…

Basic Oscilloscope Operation

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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) as a Switch

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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

An Electric Pendulum

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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Digital Lab - Basic 2-Input NAND Gate Circuit

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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.

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Fuses

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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…

The Common-emitter Amplifier

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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…

Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Switched Capacitor Circuitry

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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

Power Supply Circuits

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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Node Voltage Method

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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…

Low-pass Filters

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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.

Zener Diodes

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Circuits and the Speed of Light

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Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…

Inductors

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! A 5 H inductor is subjected to an electric…

DC Lab - Parallel Batteries

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.

Practical Considerations - Batteries

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When connecting batteries together to form larger “banks”…

Physical Effects of Electricity

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Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…

Electrical Noise and Interference

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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

Capacitive Reactance

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Measurements of AC Magnitude

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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…

Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

Tachogenerators

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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…

Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Δ-Y and Y-Δ Conversions

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In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…

DC Metrology

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Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…

Amplifiers

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Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…

Introduction to Diodes And Rectifiers

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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Vol II. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Si Lab - Full-wave Center-tap Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave rectifier for AC to DC conversion and learn about center-tapped transformers.

Specific Resistance of Conductors

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Building a Differential Amplifier

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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…

Noise Figure Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers

Voltmeter Design

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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…

The Shockley Diode

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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…

Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

Attenuators

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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

Circuit Wiring

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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…

Si Lab - Simple Op Amp

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.

Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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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.

Electron Tubes

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Cathode:   This is the electrode that is heated and emits the…

Component Failure Analysis (Continued)

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“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…