At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…
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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…
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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…
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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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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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This calculator computes the inductance of a wire coil.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…
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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
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There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of…
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A helpful analogy for understanding divided feedback amplifier…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! A 5 H inductor is subjected to an electric…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a red LED flasher and learn a useful application of the versatile 555 timer IC.
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
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Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
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What is Split-Phase Power Systems? Split-phase power systems achieve…
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This calculator solves for any single missing value in the ideal diode I-V equation for a forward-biased PN-junction diode. Parameters are current, saturation current, voltage, temperature, and ideality factor.
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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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