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Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Thermocouples

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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…

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.

Strain Gauges

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

DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

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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.

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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

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.

Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

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

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…

Permanent Magnets

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

DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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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.

Building a Differential Amplifier

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

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.

Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

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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.

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

pH Measurement

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A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

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.

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.

Fuses

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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Design Project: Audio Tone Control

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Suppose you were installing a high-power stereo system in your car,…

The Tetrode

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As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…

Slope (integrating) ADC

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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

Magnetic Units of Measurement

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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…

Power Conversion Circuits

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

AC Commutator Motors

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

Series-parallel R, L, and C

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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…

Contributors (5)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Energy, Work, and Power

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Q Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit

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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…

Karnaugh Maps, Truth Tables, and Boolean Expressions

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Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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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.

Node Voltage Method

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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

Introduction to Combinational Logic Functions

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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…

Clamper Circuits

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The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…

Contributors (6)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…