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Waveguides

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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

Phase-Locked Loops

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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

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

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

Standing Waves and Resonance

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Whenever there is a mismatch of impedance between transmission line…

Mixed-Frequency Signals

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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Principles of Radio

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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Networks and Busses

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

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Friis Transmission Calculator

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This calculator computes the power received by an antenna using Friis formula

Network Protocols

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Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

Signal Modulation

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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…

Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

Digital Communication

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

Attenuators

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

Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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

Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…

Finite-length Transmission Lines

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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…

Pi Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.

Rectifier Circuits

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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…

ElectroStatic Discharge

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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…

Permanent Magnets

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Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…

Questions to Ask Before Proceeding

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

Absolute dB scales

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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…

Other Waveshapes

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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

Finite State Machines

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Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Active Filters

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

Mixed-Frequency Signals

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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

Principles of Radio

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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

What is Network Analysis?

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The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…

“Long’’ and “Short’’ Transmission Lines

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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…

Inductance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor

Amplifier Gain

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The Voltage Gain Because amplifiers have the ability to increase the…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Vol V. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Factors Affecting Capacitance

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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…

555 Lab - Monostable Multivibrator (One-shot)

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a monostable multivibrator using a 555 timer IC and learn about RC time constant charging and how a one-shot timer operates.

Junction field-effect transistors (JFET)

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

Factoring Equivalencies

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Factoring Identities :   a2 - b2 = (a + b) (a - b) a2 + 2ab + b2…

Other Waveshapes

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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

Miscellaneous Diode Applications

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

Thyristors

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

Digital Ramp ADC

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Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Series Circuits and the Application of Ohm’s Law

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In this introduction to series resistance circuits, we will explain…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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

Voltage-to-Current Signal Conversion

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In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…

Capacitor Impedance Calculator

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This tool calculates a capacitor's reactance for a given capacitance value and signal frequency.

The Common-collector Amplifier

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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…

Amplifier Impedances

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Input impedance varies considerably with the circuit configuration…

Vol I. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Series and Parallel Inductors

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When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…

Look-up Tables

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Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…

Impedance Transformation

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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…