It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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.
Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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.
What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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.
The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…
Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law
An often neglected area of study in modern electronics is that of…
Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…
Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…
The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…
The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.
After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
Current Source It is possible through the use of electronic amplifiers…
This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.
Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A…
A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
Suppose we had a simple one-battery, one-lamp circuit controlled by a…
Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
