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Series Parallel Circuits

Series/Parallel circuits are reduced to an equivalent resistance and that resistance is verified by measuring the total current and total voltage. Also,...

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Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws

Verify the laws for a resistive circuit using a DC input and for a time varying RC circuit. The DC portion and the RC portion of the lab are each stand-alone...

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Capacitance

Investigate how the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor varies when the plate separation is changed and to qualitatively see the effect of introducing...

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RC Circuit

For a capacitor discharging through a resistor, the half-life for the decay is measured directly and also calculated using the capacitive time constant.

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LRC Series Circuit

The phase differences between the output voltage, the voltage across the inductor, the voltage across the capacitor, and the voltage across the resistor...

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LRC Resonance

The current through a series LRC circuit is examined as a function of applied frequency and the effects of changing the values of the resistance, inductance,...

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Properties of Diodes

Investigate the characteristic curves (I vs. V) of various types of diodes and to determine their “turn-on” voltages.

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Build a Rectifier

Build a half wave rectifier and to examine its properties. An RC filter circuit is then added to produce a DC power supply and the dependence on the RC...

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NPN Transistor

Investigate the operation of an NPN transistor.

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Current Gain of a Transistor

Measure the current gain of an NPN transistor.

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