A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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A principal consideration for industrial control networks, where the…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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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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This is a schematic for a simple VCO: The oscillator is of the RC…
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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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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
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This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna
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In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
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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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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.
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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…
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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
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Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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A peak detector is a series connection of a diode and a…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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Dielectric strength in kilovolts per inch (kV/in): Material*…
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So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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As a first example of useful combinational logic, let’s build a…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
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