Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…
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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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A calculator designed to compute the VSWR, reflection coefficient, return loss and matching loss in a transmission line
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…
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The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
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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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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
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It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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Additive Identity a + 0 = a Multiplicative Identity 1a = a…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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In an astable circuit, the output voltage alternates between VCC and 0 volts on a continuous basis. This calculator will help you design an oscillator using a 555 timer IC.
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If two coils of wire are brought into close proximity with each other…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…
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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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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…
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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…
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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.
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If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…
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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.
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Learn about junction field effect transistors (JFETs), their equations, and how to model and simulate JFETs in LTspice.
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential…
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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…
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