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.
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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 motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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.
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
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.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
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.
You might have been wondering how charges can continuously flow in a…
This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
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.
Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…
The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
Definition of a Factorial Denoted by the symbol “!” after…
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.
A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
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.
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…
Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…
This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.
For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.
If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…
A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…
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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…
The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…
This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.
Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of voltage…
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