Current Divider Circuits

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Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

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DC Lab - Build Your Own Multimeter

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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Analog Lab - High-impedance Voltmeter

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.

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Calculus for Electric Circuits

∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

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Peak, Average, and RMS Measurements

How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…

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Design Project: Signal Generator

Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…

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Counters

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DC Lab - Sensitive Voltage Detector With Audio Output

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.

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Differential Transistor Amplifiers

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DC Motor Theory

If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

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Junction field-effect transistors (JFET)

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Specific Resistance of Conductors

Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

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Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

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Decibel Measurements

During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

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Potentiometers

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Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

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Timer Circuits

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Analog and Digital Signals

Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

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Intro Lab - How to Use an Ammeter to Measure Current

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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Phasor Mathematics

Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…

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General Troubleshooting Tips

When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…

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Conductor Size

It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…

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Branch Current Method Analysis

The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…

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Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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

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Digital Display Circuits

What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

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Series Circuits and the Application of Ohm’s Law

In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…

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Diode Switching Circuits

Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…

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Op-amp Circuits

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High-Reliability Circuits

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Introduction to Combinational Logic Functions

The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…

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Servo Motor Systems

Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

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AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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Capacitance

Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

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Scientific Notation in SPICE

The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…

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Electromechanical Relay Logic

In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…

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SPICE Models

The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

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Class A BJT Amplifiers

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Ionization (gas-filled) Tubes

So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…

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Si Lab - Intro to Discrete Semiconductor Circuits

In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.

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Transistor Ratings and Packages (JFET)

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Four-Channel Audio Mixer

A very common misconception students have about potentiometers is the…

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Si Lab - Differential Amplifier

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.

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Simple Vector Addition

Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…

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Properties of Exponents

Product of Powers Property am an = am+n   Power of a Product…

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Series and Parallel Component Equivalent Values

Series and Parallel Resistances     Series and Parallel…

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Sources of Electricity

What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

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Why digital?

Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…

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The Instrumentation Amplifier

What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…

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AC Circuit Equations

Inductive Reactance     Capacitive Reactance    …

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Harmonic Phase Sequences

In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…

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Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

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“Ladder” Diagrams

Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

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Trigonometry for AC Circuits

Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…

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True, Reactive, and Apparent Power

Reactive Power We know that reactive loads such as inductors and…

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Basic Ammeter Use

Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…

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Series LED Resistor Calculator

This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.

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Building Series-Parallel Resistor Circuits

Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…

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Optothyristors

Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…

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Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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