Overcurrent Protection

What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…

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DC Bridge Circuits

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Voltmeter Design

As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…

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Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…

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Ohmmeter Design

Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…

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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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DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.

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Voltage/Current Converter OpAmp Circuits

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The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

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Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Ammeter Design

What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…

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Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

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Magnetic Units of Measurement

In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…

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AC Network Analysis

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Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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Basic Voltmeter Use

What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…

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Strain Gauges

If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…

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Superposition Theorem

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Design Project: AC-DC Power Supply

Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

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Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

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Active Loads in Amplifier Circuits

We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…

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Time Constant Circuits

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Fundamentals of SPICE programming

Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…

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DC Lab - Precision Potentiometer

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.

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Switches

What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

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Thyristors

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Design Project: Voltmeter

The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…

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Differential Transistor Amplifiers

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DC Lab - Current Divider

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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PN Junctions

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pH Measurement

A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

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Intro Lab - How to Use an Ohmmeter to Measure Resistance

In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure resistance using the ohmmeter function.

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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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Analog Lab - PWM Power Controller

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a pulse-width modulator power controller for a light and learn the basics of PWM signals.

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Capacitive Reactance

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Si Lab - Half-wave Rectifier

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.

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Hand Calculator Use

To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…

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What is Network Analysis?

The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…

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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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Slope (integrating) ADC

So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

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Definite Integrals and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

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JFET Quirks

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Power Added Efficiency Calculator

A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier

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Boolean Algebra

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Principles of Radio

One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

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Coax Inductance Calculator

A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.

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Polarity of voltage drops

When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…

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Autotransformers

How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…

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Digital Communication

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The Instrumentation Amplifier

What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…

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More on Spectrum Analysis

Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…

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AC Waveforms

When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…

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Critical Temperatures for Superconductors

Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…

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AC Lab - Phase Shift in a Capacitive Circuit

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.

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Series-parallel R, L, and C

Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…

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Contributors (9)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Analysis Options

AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…

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Parallel Circuit Rules

Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…

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Si Lab - Simple Op Amp

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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Thyristor Application Circuits

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