A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Research the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) guidelines on…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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This calculator computes the noise figure and noise temperature in a system
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…
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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) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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This calculator allows you to solve for any of the six variables in the Friis formula for RF transmission: transmitter power, transmitter gain, receiver power, receiver gain, frequency, or distance.
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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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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.
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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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When the need arises to correct for poor power factor in an AC power…
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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.
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As an instructor of electronics, I am called upon frequently to help…
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…
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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.
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.
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A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…
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Add the following binary numbers:
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If vectors with uncommon angles are added, their magnitudes (lengths)…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…
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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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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…
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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog voltage comparator circuit and learn how open-loop operational amplifiers function.
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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…
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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
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