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Sources of Electricity

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What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

AC Lab - Using a Transformer to Build a 12 VAC Power Supply

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.

Sources of Electricity

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What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

Energy, Work, and Power

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

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

Electrical Energy Calculator

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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

Voltage, Current, and Resistance

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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…

AC Power

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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…

Regulated Power Sources

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

Power Sources

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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…

SPICE Models

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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

Binary Overflow

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One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…

RF Power Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa

AC Negative Feedback OpAmp Circuits

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

Introduction to Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors

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As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…

Simultaneous Equations for Circuit Analysis

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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…

The Silicon-Controlled Switch (SCS)

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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…

Inductance

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

Zener Diodes

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

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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

Optical Data Communication

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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…

The Triode

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De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…

DC Lab - Parallel Batteries

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

Physiological Effects of Electricity

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

Node Voltage Method

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

A Binary Adder

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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…

Introduction to Combinational Logic Functions

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

Encoders and Decoders

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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…