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Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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Analog Lab - PWM Power Controller

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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.

Time Constant Circuits

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Mixed-Frequency Signals

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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

More on Spectrum Analysis

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

Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…

Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Magnetic Units of Measurement

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

Time Constant Circuits

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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

Design Project: Signal Generator

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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…

JFET Amplifiers

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Regulated Power Sources

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Resistors

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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…

Junction field-effect transistors (JFET)

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Intro Lab - How to Use an Ohmmeter to Measure Resistance

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

Precise Diode Circuits

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Basic Ohmmeter Use

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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…

BJT Amplifier Troubleshooting

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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…

Input and Output Coupling

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To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…

Active Loads in Amplifier Circuits

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

Capacitive Reactance

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Tachogenerators

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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…

The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

Ammeter Design

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

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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AC Power

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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…

Analog Lab - PWM Power Controller

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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.

DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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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.

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.

Intro Lab - Circuit With a Switch

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.

Band-stop Filters

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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…

Meter Check of a Transistor (JFET)

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Testing a JFET with a multimeter might seem to be a relatively easy…

Zener Diodes

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Analog Lab - Voltage Comparator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog voltage comparator circuit and learn how open-loop operational amplifiers function.

Bipolar Junction Transistors

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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…

A 50-Ohm Cable?

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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…

Multimeters

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Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…

Counters

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Design Project: Sensitive Audio Detector

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The choice of step-down transformers to use in a project such as this…

Mixed-Frequency Signals

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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Ohmmeter Design

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

Troubleshooting Series and Parallel Circuits

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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…

Design Project: Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Signal Generator

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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…

Resistance

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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…

Simple Circuits

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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…

Shift Registers

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Resonance in Series-Parallel Circuits

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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…