What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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In addition to performing tasks of amplification and switching, tubes…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Cathode: This is the electrode that is heated and emits the…
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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.
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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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.
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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
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Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…
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Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
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Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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