Determine what the magnitude and polarity of the voltmeter’s…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
Seeing as how a common meter movement can be made to function as a…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…
If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…
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.
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…
The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
The Inductance Formula Wheeler’s formulas for…
An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
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.
As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…
There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…
The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…
At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
