Look-up Tables

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

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DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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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Si Lab - Differential Amplifier

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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Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

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Brushless DC Motor

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

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DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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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Physiological Effects of Electricity

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

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Permanent Magnets

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

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Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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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Bipolar Junction Transistors

The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…

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Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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

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Lorentz Force Calculator

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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AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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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Synchronous Motors

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

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Thermocouples

Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

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AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

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Voltage Divider Calculator

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

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Building a Differential Amplifier

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

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Strain Gauges

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

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Inductive Reactance

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

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Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits

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

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TTL NAND and AND gates

Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

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SPICE Models

The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

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Si Lab - Multi-stage Amplifier

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.

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Time Constant Circuits

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

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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

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Microcontroller Principles

Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

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Introduction to Complex Numbers

If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…

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Binary Subtraction

We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…

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Sum and Product Notation

For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

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AC Generator Theory

If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

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Voltage, Current, and Resistance

Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…

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The R/2nR DAC: Binary-Weighted-Input Digital-to-Analog Converter

What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…

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Series Circuit Rules

Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…

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Rectifier Circuits

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

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Si Lab - Bipolar Transistor as a Switch

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.

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Pulse Width Modulation

Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

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Programmable Logic Controllers

The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…

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Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…

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