Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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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.
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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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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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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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It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…
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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
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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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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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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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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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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.
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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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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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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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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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It was discovered centuries ago that certain types of materials would…
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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
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Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…
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This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
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