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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…
As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test digital circuits and learn the fundamentals of digital logic circuits, including gates, counters, logic levels, hysteresis, memory, and more.
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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…
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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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When analyzing complex series and parallel circuits, it is easy to…
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