In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
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Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…
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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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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…
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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple current mirror using matched bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about current mirror circuit limitations, the temperature dependence of BJTs, and thermal runaway.
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Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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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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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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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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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…
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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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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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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…
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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
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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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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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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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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…
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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
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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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A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
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Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Class B push-pull audio amplifier to drive a speaker and learn about crossover distortion and how to minimize it using negative feedback.
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a symmetric stripline.
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This calculator helps determine the maximum temperature a device can withstand
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