Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
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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.
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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.
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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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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.
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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
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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.
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
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(“c” being a constant) RELATED…
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Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…
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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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Reactive Power We know that reactive loads such as inductors and…
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While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
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The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…
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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
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Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…
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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
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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.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
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Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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