Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
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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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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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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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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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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 semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.
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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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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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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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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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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 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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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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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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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.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
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If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator using a 555 timer and learn the theory of operation of the 555 timer when configured as an astable multivibrator.
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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…
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Larger Karnaugh maps reduce larger logic designs. How large is large…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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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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