(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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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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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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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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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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This tool is designed to convert power ratios to decibel
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.
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When an alternator produces AC voltage, the voltage switches polarity…
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The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…
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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a rectangular waveguide
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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A tool designed to calculate the noise figure of cascaded amplifiers
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This calculator computes the noise figure and noise temperature in a system
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…
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In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
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Power in an electric circuit is the product (multiplication) of…
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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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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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
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This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a parallel resonant inductor-capacitor circuit and learn about oscillation, resonant frequency, and damping.
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There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
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An often neglected area of study in modern electronics is that of…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…
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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.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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