The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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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.
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…
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Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
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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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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
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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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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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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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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…
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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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