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Si Lab - JFET Switching Circuit and Static Electricity Sensor

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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.

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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.

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

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

AC Lab - Sensing AC Magnetic Fields

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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.

Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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

Si Lab - JFET Switching Circuit and Static Electricity Sensor

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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.

Permanent Magnets

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

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.

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.

Thermocouples

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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

pH Measurement

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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

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.

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Building a Differential Amplifier

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

Look-up Tables

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

Strain Gauges

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

Si Lab - Differential Amplifier

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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.

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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

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.

Capacitors

Worksheets - Motion Sensors

Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…

555 Lab - Red LED Flasher

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.

Transistors, Insulated-gate Field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)

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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…

Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for an inverting op-amp.

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…

The Cascode Amplifier

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While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…

DIP Gate Packaging

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Digital logic gate circuits are manufactured as integrated circuits:…

Input and Output Coupling

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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

Analog Lab - Non-inverting Amplifier

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

The J-K Flip-Flop

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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…

Thermocouples

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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

Encoder

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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…

Digital Lab - 3-bit Binary Counter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.

Table (portrait view)

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  Periodic table of chemical elements.

Network Protocols

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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

Shift Registers

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