A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.
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Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…
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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…
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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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This calculator computes the noise figure and noise temperature in a system
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.
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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
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A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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Power measurement in AC circuits can be quite a bit more complex than…
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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an S-R latch with an enabled input using four NAND gates and learn more about digital circuit functionality.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a red LED flasher with a transistor drive to control the current and learn how to use transistors to provide current gain and how to limit LED current.
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): Material*…
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Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…
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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a custom operational amplifier (op amp) and learn about the application of current mirrors and the use of negative feedback in op amp circuits.
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…
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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build analog circuits, including amplifiers, comparators, oscillators, and more. Following the step-by-step instructions will help you understand and appreciate analog systems.
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A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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