Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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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.
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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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.
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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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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.
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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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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.
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Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
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The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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In addition to voltage and current, there is another important…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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