An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.
A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…
Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…
As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…
What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
“With Electronics Workbench, you can create circuit schematics…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
To overcome the challenge of creating necessary DC bias voltage for an…
Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
As the name suggests, the tetrode tube contains four elements: cathode…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…
A helpful analogy for understanding divided feedback amplifier…
Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…