Volume VI - Experiments
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: BASIC CONCEPTS AND TEST EQUIPMENT
Chapter 3: DC CIRCUITS
- Introduction
- Series batteries
- Parallel batteries
- Voltage divider
- Current divider
- Potentiometer as a voltage divider
- Potentiometer as a rheostat
- Precision potentiometer
- Rheostat range limiting
- Thermoelectricity
- Make your own multimeter
- Sensitive voltage detector
- Potentiometric voltmeter
- 4-wire resistance measurement
- A very simple computer
- Potato battery
- Capacitor charging and discharging
- Rate-of-change indicator
Chapter 4: AC CIRCUITS
- Introduction
- Transformer -- power supply
- Build a transformer
- Variable inductor
- Sensitive audio detector
- Sensing AC magnetic fields
- Sensing AC electric fields
- Automotive alternator
- Induction motor
- Phase shift
- Sound cancellation
- Musical keyboard as a signal generator
- PC Oscilloscope
- Waveform analysis
- Inductor-capacitor "tank" circuit
- Signal coupling
Chapter 5: DISCRETE SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUITS
- Introduction
- Commutating diode
- Half-wave rectifier
- Full-wave center-tap rectifier
- Full-wave bridge rectifier
- Rectifier/filter circuit
- Voltage regulator
- Transistor as a switch
- Static electricity sensor
- Pulsed-light sensor
- Voltage follower
- Common-emitter amplifier
- Multi-stage amplifier
- Current mirror
- JFET current regulator
- Differential amplifier
- Simple op-amp
- Audio oscillator
- Vacuum tube audio amplifier
Chapter 6: ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Chapter 7: DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Chapter 8: CONTRIBUTOR LIST