It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
Textbook
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Textbook
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
Textbook
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
Tools
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
Textbook
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Textbook
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
Textbook
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.
Textbook
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
Tools
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
Textbook
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
Textbook
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
Textbook
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
Textbook
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
Textbook
Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
Textbook
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
Textbook
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.
Textbook
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.
Textbook
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.
Textbook
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
Tools
Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
Worksheets - Automotive
It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
Textbook
A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…
Textbook
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
Worksheets - Automotive
Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
Textbook
A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier
Tools
Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
Textbook
<p> Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological…
Textbook
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Worksheets - Automotive
Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): Material*…
Textbook
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
Textbook
In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
Textbook
So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
Textbook
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Textbook
The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
Textbook
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Textbook
When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
Worksheets - Automotive
Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…
Textbook
A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable
Tools
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.
Textbook