If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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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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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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An unbalanced Wheatstone bridge cannot be solved using simple series…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
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A rheostat (variable resistor) and a switch are both examples of…
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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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AC electromechanical meter movements come in two basic arrangements:…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…
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Larger Karnaugh maps reduce larger logic designs. How large is large…
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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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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.
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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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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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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use a PC-based oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn basic oscilloscope operation.
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Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…
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What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…
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A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls current with the…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Design a passive circuit that will create a "split” ( V/-V) power…
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Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
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Power measurement in AC circuits can be quite a bit more complex than…
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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…
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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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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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