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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
This calculator computes the power received by an antenna using Friis formula
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…
Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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.
The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
The 555 integrated circuit is the most popular chip ever manufactured.…
As we saw in a few SPICE analyses earlier in this chapter, the output…
A similar effect happens in series inductive/capacitive circuits. When…
Digital computers communicate with external devices through ports:…
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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During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…