First Designs in Electrical Engineering

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This laboratory manual provides detailed step-by-step instruction sto support beginning students of all levels so they gradually build up their confidence as they take their first design steps in a professional, real-world, electrical engineering laboratory. A set of carefully selected experiments based on experience acquired over several decades ensures that students get exposed to a wide range of topics starting from simple DC circuits to more involved second order filters and training on using professional engineering instruments. Important application-inspired experiments have also been included to make a complete semester-long laboratory.

Introduction

Experiment 1 Observation Modeling, and Communication

Experiment 2 Resistance, Voltage, and Current Measurements

Experiment 3 Ammeter Shunt Design

Experiment 4 Voltage Controlled Voltage Source

Experiment 5 Voltage Vs. Time Measurements

Experiment 6 Triggering and X-Y Mode

Experiment 7 Lab Practical Exam 1

Experiment 8 Step Response Measurement

Experiment 9 Resistors, Inductors, and Capacitors

Experiment 10 Formal Report Experiment

Experiment 11 R-L-C Circuits

Experiment 12 Amplifier Circuit Design

Experiment 13 The Summing Amplifier

Experiment 14 Phase and Frequency Response of Filters

Experiment 15 Lab Practical Exam 2

Appendix 1 Identification of Components

Appendix 2 Circuit Construction Techniques

Appendix 3 Introduction to Operational Amplifiers

Appendix 4 Protoboard Paper

Appendix 5 Semilog Paper

Appendix 6 Formal Report Guidelines

Appendix 7 Specification Sheets

Appendix 8 A Thevenin Equivalent for a Potentiometer Circuit

Appendix 9

References

About the Authors

Index

Matthew Swabey
Dimitrios Peroulis
Barrett Robinson
Nithin Raghunathan

This laboratory manual provides detailed step-by-step instruction sto support beginning students of all levels so they gradually build up their confidence as they take their first design steps in a professional, real-world, electrical engineering laboratory. A set of carefully selected experiments based on experience acquired over several decades ensures that students get exposed to a wide range of topics starting from simple DC circuits to more involved second order filters and training on using professional engineering instruments. Important application-inspired experiments have also been included to make a complete semester-long laboratory.

Introduction

Experiment 1 Observation Modeling, and Communication

Experiment 2 Resistance, Voltage, and Current Measurements

Experiment 3 Ammeter Shunt Design

Experiment 4 Voltage Controlled Voltage Source

Experiment 5 Voltage Vs. Time Measurements

Experiment 6 Triggering and X-Y Mode

Experiment 7 Lab Practical Exam 1

Experiment 8 Step Response Measurement

Experiment 9 Resistors, Inductors, and Capacitors

Experiment 10 Formal Report Experiment

Experiment 11 R-L-C Circuits

Experiment 12 Amplifier Circuit Design

Experiment 13 The Summing Amplifier

Experiment 14 Phase and Frequency Response of Filters

Experiment 15 Lab Practical Exam 2

Appendix 1 Identification of Components

Appendix 2 Circuit Construction Techniques

Appendix 3 Introduction to Operational Amplifiers

Appendix 4 Protoboard Paper

Appendix 5 Semilog Paper

Appendix 6 Formal Report Guidelines

Appendix 7 Specification Sheets

Appendix 8 A Thevenin Equivalent for a Potentiometer Circuit

Appendix 9

References

About the Authors

Index

Matthew Swabey
Dimitrios Peroulis
Barrett Robinson
Nithin Raghunathan