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Voltage Divider Calculator

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

DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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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.

Look-up Tables

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

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

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

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Thermocouples

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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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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.

Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Permanent Magnets

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

DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

Textbook

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.

Switches, Process Actuated

Textbook

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

Physiological Effects of Electricity

Textbook

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

Look-up Tables

Textbook

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

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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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.

Building a Differential Amplifier

Textbook

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

Lorentz Force Calculator

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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.

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

Tools

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

Textbook

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.

Strain Gauges

Textbook

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

DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

Textbook

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.

AC Instrumentation Transducers

Textbook

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

pH Measurement

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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

Wavelength (TEM) Calculator

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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.

Active-mode Operation (BJT)

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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…

Waveform Analysis

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PARTS AND MATERIALS IBM-compatible personal computer with sound card,…

Ohm’s Law - How Voltage, Current, and Resistance Relate

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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Capacitor Transient Response

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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

Mixed-Frequency Signals

Worksheets - Environmental Sensors

What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Low-pass Filters

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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…

Solving for Unknown Time

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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

DC Circuit Equations and Laws

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

Gate Universality

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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

Worksheets - Environmental Sensors

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

Design Project: Event Counter

Worksheets - Environmental Sensors

If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…

DC Lab - Current Divider

Textbook

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

Worksheets - Environmental Sensors

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

Design Project: Telegraph System

Worksheets - Environmental Sensors

What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

What is Network Analysis?

Textbook

The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…

Rectifier Circuits

Worksheets - Environmental Sensors

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

Asynchronous Flip-Flop Inputs

Textbook

The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…