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Bipolar Junction Transistors in Active Mode

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Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

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More on AC “polarity”

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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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Intro Lab - How to Use an Ammeter to Measure Current

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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.

Analysis Options

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AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

Wire-by-Number project kit introduction

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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…

Timer Circuits

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DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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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.

DC Bridge Circuits

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Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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JFET Amplifiers

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Intro Lab - How to Use a Voltmeter to Measure Voltage

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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.

Analysis Techniques for Series Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…

Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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Voltmeter Design

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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…

Design Project: DC Motor

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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

AC Circuit Equations

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Inductive Reactance     Capacitive Reactance    …

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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Display Tubes

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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…

Precise Diode Circuits

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Resonant Filters

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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…

Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Protective Relay Circuits

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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.

AC Resistor Circuits (Capacitive)

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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase.  …

Numeration Systems

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Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…

Tachogenerators

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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…

Series and Parallel AC Circuits

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Solving for Unknown Time

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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…

Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.

AC Waveforms

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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Serial-out (PISO) Conversion

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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…

Dielectric Strengths for Insulators

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Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): Material*…

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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

Memory Devices

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AC phase

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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…

Synchronous Condenser

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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…

Polyphase Motor Design

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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

The Shockley Diode

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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…

Asynchronous Flip-Flop Inputs

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The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…

Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

Polar Form and Rectangular Form Notation for Complex Numbers

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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…

Logarithms

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Definition of a Logarithm     “log” denotes a…

Four-Channel Audio Mixer

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A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

Capacitors and Calculus

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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

Performance-Based Assessments for Network Analysis Competencies

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N-Way Power Divider Calculator

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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.