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Digital Communication

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

Friis Transmission Calculator

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This calculator computes the power received by an antenna using Friis formula

Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…

Noise Figure and Noise Temperature Calculator

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This calculator computes the noise figure and noise temperature in a system

Wavelength (TEM) Calculator

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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.

What is a Filter?

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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…

Amplifier Gain

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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…

Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

Susceptance and Admittance

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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

High-pass Filters

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A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…

Mixed-Frequency Signals

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

Design Project: Radio Transmitter

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Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…

EIRP Calculator

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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna

Microstrip Inductance Calculator

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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.

Pi Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.

Bandpass Filter Calculator

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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.

Noise Figure Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers

Absolute dB scales

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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

Performance-Based Assessments for DC Circuit Competencies

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Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)

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The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…

Design Project: Arbitrary Waveform Generator

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What, exactly, is an arbitrary waveform generator, and for what…

Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Analog Lab - Non-inverting Amplifier

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a programmable non-inverting amplifier and learn how to use the negative feedback of an operational amplifier to control the gain.

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

The Command-line Interface

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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…

What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

Si Lab - Intro to Discrete Semiconductor Circuits

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In these hands-on semiconductor electronics experiments, learn to build and test circuits using discrete silicon (Si) devices, including diodes and transistors. Also, learn important circuit designs, including rectifiers, current mirrors, amplifiers, and oscillators.

Programmable Logic Controllers

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The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…

Design Project: Sensitive Audio Detector

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

Class A BJT Amplifiers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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

Millman’s Theorem

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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…

Bipolar Junction Transistors

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

Si Lab - BJT Common-collector Voltage Follower

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.

Series Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…

Series Circuit Rules

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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…

AC Bridge Circuits

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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…

Why digital?

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Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…

Capacitors and Calculus

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Capacitors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…

Square Wave Signals

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

AC Voltmeters and Ammeters

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AC electromechanical meter movements come in two basic arrangements:…

555 Lab - Blue LED Flasher With Voltage Doubler

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a blue LED flasher using a 555 timer and learn the basic theory of a voltage doubler using a transistor switch and a capacitor.

Derivatives of Power Functions of e

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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…

The Antiderivative (Indefinite Integral)

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  Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Simple Circuits

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

Introduction to Digital Communication

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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…

Calculus for Electric Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Thyristor Application Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

Basic AC-DC Power Supplies

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

What is a Meter?

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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…

The P-N Junction

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If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…