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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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…
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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.
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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
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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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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
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Figure below shows a photodiode amplifier for measuring low levels of…
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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
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So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…
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This calculator calculates the resistivity of a component based on its resistance value, length, and cross-sectional area.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…
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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
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What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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Learn about junction field effect transistors (JFETs), their equations, and how to model and simulate JFETs in LTspice.
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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…
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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…
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Introduction This third volume of the book series Lessons In Electric…
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Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…
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