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Measurements of AC Magnitude

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So far we know that AC voltage alternates in polarity and AC current…

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.

DC Metrology

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Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…

Counters

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Square Wave Signals

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

Phase-Locked Loops

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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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

Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…

Potentiometers

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Specific Troubleshooting Techniques

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After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…

Rectifier Circuits

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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AC Waveforms

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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…

Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

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DC Lab - Voltage Divider

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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.

TTL Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Series DC Circuits Practice Worksheet with Answers

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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…

AC Waveforms

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

Design Project: Audio Media-Based Signal Generator

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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

Flip-Flop Circuits

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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.

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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AC phase

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If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…

Capacitors

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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…

Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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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.

AC Power

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

Multimeters

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

Component Failure Analysis (Continued)

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“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…

Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…

Questions relating to project management

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IGFET Amplifiers

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Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

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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.

Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

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AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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.

Magnetic Units of Measurement

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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…

The Pentode

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Another strategy for addressing the problem of secondary electrons…

Time-delay Relays

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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

Simple Circuits

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

DC Lab - Precision Potentiometer

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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.

Resistance, Reactance, and Impedance

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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…

Si Lab - Bipolar Transistor as a Switch

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.

Computational Circuits

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When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

Trace Resistance Calculator

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This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace

Capacitor Charge and Time Constant Calculator

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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.

Capacitor Types

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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…

Biasing Techniques (IGFET)

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Design Project: Telegraph System

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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

Contributors (2)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Design Project: Radio Transmitter

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Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…

Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…

Coefficients of Specific Resistance

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Specific resistance at 20o C:  Material Element/Alloy ohm-cmil/ft…

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…

Coil Inductance Calculator

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This calculator computes the inductance of a wire coil.

AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

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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.