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What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

Waveguides

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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…

Mutual Inductance

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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Capacitance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.

Introduction to Mixed-Frequency AC Signals

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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Q Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit

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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Antenna Downtilt and Coverage Calculator

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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.

Digital Communication

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

Optical Data Communication

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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…

Network Topology

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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…

N-Way Power Divider Calculator

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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.

Design Project: Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Signal Generator

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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…

Voltage and Current Calculations

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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…

LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.

Questions to Ask Before Proceeding

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Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…

Attenuators

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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Introduction to Boolean Algebra

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Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…

Millman’s Theorem

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

Microstrip Trace Width Calculator

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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip

Field-effect-controlled Thyristors

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Two relatively recent technologies designed to reduce the…

DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.

Simple Circuits

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

Optical Data Communication

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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

High Voltage Ohmmeters

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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…

AC Network Analysis

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

Insulator Breakdown Voltage

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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

Systems of Numeration

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Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…

AC Power

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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…

AC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build alternating current (AC) circuits and learn about basic electrical engineering circuit concepts, including transformers, motors, phase shifts, signal coupling, and noise cancellation.

Quantum Devices

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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…

CMOS Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Wire Self Inductance Calculator

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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.

Memory Devices

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

Microprocessor Programming

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What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

AC Bridge Circuits

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

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Important Constants

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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…

Quantum Devices

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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…

Capacitance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Finite-state Machine

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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…

Elementary Circuits

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In the simplest terms you can think of, define what an electrical…

Si Lab - Astable Multivibrator Audio Oscillator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Transistors, Bipolar

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There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…

Programmable Logic Controllers

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

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…

JFET Quirks

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Algebraic Substitution for Electric Circuits

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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…

Converting Between Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits

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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…

Skin Depth Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.

The Common-gate Amplifier (JFET)

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Analog Lab - Op Amp Integrator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.

Microprocessor Programming

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What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…