Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…

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Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.

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Synchronous Motors

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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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Bipolar Junction Transistors

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

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DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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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Strain Gauges

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

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Switches, Process Actuated

It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…

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Si Lab - JFET Switching Circuit and Static Electricity Sensor

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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Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

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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Voltage Divider Calculator

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

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Physiological Effects of Electricity

Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…

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DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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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Permanent Magnets

Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…

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Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

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AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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.

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Building a Differential Amplifier

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

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Lorentz Force Calculator

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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AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

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Look-up Tables

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

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Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

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A Binary Adder

Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…

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Single-phase Power Systems

Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…

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DC Circuit Equations and Laws

Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law    …

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Metric Prefix Conversions

To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…

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Operational Amplifier Models

While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…

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Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

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Polarity of voltage drops

When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…

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Design Project: Audio Power Amplifier

Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…

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Logic Simplification With Karnaugh Maps

The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…

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Input and Output Coupling

To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

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Resistance

The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…

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Voltage/Current Converter OpAmp Circuits

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

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Design Project: Arbitrary Waveform Generator

What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…

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Power in Electric Circuits

In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…

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Motor Control Circuits

The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

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Complex Voltage and Current Calculations

There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…

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Copper Wire Ampacity Table

Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

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555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.

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AC Lab - Using a Transformer to Build a 12 VAC Power Supply

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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