PARTS AND MATERIALS Calculator (or pencil and paper for doing…
Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Multimeter, digital or analog Assorted batteries…
Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two single-turn, linear-taper potentiometers, 5…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Sensitive meter movement (Radio Shack catalog #…
Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…
Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One NPN transistor—models 2N2222 or 2N3403…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Four 6 volt batteries One capacitor, 100 µF…
Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
The first, and perhaps most important, the relationship between…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
Parts and Materials 6-volt battery 6-volt incandescent lamp Jumper…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Electronic “keyboard” (musical)…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
For a given amount of water pressure, which will flow a greater rate…
Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The concept of a mathematical power is familiar to most students of…
When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…
With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Power transformer, 120VAC step-down to 12VAC,…
Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…
Add the following binary numbers:
We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage…
Convert to and from different units of length, weight, power, temperature and torque
Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
