Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…
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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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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…
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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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When lightning strikes, nearby magnetic compass needles may be seen to…
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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…
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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…
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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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Although the prime intent of octal and hexadecimal numeration systems…
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In mathematics, an identity is a statement true for all possible…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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If we take three equal resistors and connect one end of each to a…
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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
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“With Electronics Workbench, you can create circuit schematics…
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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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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 ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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When first approaching a failed or otherwise misbehaving system, the…
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in series and learn the relationship between the individual battery voltages and the total series voltage.
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An electromechanical generator is a device capable of producing…
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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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