Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of voltage…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
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.
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.
The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…
What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…
What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…
A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
This tool is designed to convert power ratios to decibel
The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
Factoring Identities : a2 - b2 = (a + b) (a - b) a2 + 2ab + b2…