A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
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Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use a PC-based oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn basic oscilloscope operation.
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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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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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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…
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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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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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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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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…
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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
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AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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The singular reason for learning and using the binary numeration…
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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…
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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
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Identify the type of logic gate shown in this schematic diagram, and…
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Power measurement in AC circuits can be quite a bit more complex than…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as 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 voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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