Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 6-volt battery Electromagnet made from experiment…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
PARTS AND MATERIALS High-quality “closed-cup” audio headphones…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries One NPN transistor—models…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One N-channel junction field-effect transistor,…
Learning Objectives Rheostat use Wiring a potentiometer as a rheostat…
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries Two NPN…
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…
Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Low-voltage AC power supply (6-volt output) Two…
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace
Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
