Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a bridged-tee attenuator.
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
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This calculator allows you to solve for any of the six variables in the Friis formula for RF transmission: transmitter power, transmitter gain, receiver power, receiver gain, frequency, or distance.
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This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
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Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.
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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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Periodic table of chemical elements.
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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.
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It is imperative to understand that the type of numeration system used…
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