By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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.
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
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.
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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.
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.
Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…
As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.
The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
