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…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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.
This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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.
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
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.
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…
It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.
The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…
“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…