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AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.

Bipolar Junction Transistors

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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…

Building a Differential Amplifier

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

Look-up Tables

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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…

Thermocouples

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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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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.

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

Si Lab - JFET Switching Circuit and Static Electricity Sensor

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.

Strain Gauges

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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…

pH Measurement

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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Si Lab - Differential Amplifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.

DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.

Voltage Divider Calculator

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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.

Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.

DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.

What Are Electric Circuits?

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You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

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.

Oscillator Circuits

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Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…

Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)

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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…

Factorials

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Definition of a Factorial Denoted by the symbol “!” after…

AC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.

VSWR / Return Loss Calculator

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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line

Differential Equations

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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…

Mutual Inductance

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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

Operational Amplifier Models

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While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…

Polar Form and Rectangular Form Notation for Complex Numbers

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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…

555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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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.

Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

Counters

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

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…

IGBTs

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Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…

Pi Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.

Sum and Product Notation

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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.

Ring Counters

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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…

Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Voltage and Current in a Practical Circuit

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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…

The Thyristor

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A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…

Binary Math Circuits

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Add the following binary numbers:

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…

Insulator Breakdown Voltage

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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

Series Circuit Rules

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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…

Monostable Multivibrators

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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…

Basic Electricity Worksheet

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Power Conversion Circuits

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

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Active Versus Passive Devices

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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Parallel DC Circuits Practice Worksheet With Answers

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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of voltage…

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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Transistors, junction field-effect (JFET)

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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…