East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Make, Electronics

eng

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non fiction

Make

dictionaries

918555619

Electronics

Copyright; Table of Contents; What's New in the Second Edition; Preface: How to Have Fun with This Book; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. The Basics; Necessary Items for Chapter One; The Multimeter; Ranging; Values; Safety Glasses; Batteries and Connectors; Test Leads; Potentiometer; Fuse; Light-Emitting Diodes; Resistors; Experiment 1: Taste the Power!; What You Will Need; Caution: No More than Nine Volts; Procedure; Setting Up Your Meter; Fundamentals: Ohms; Measuring Your Tongue; Fundamentals: Inside a Battery; Further Investigation; Background: The Man Who Discovered ResistanceCleanup and RecyclingExperiment 2: Let's Abuse a Battery!; Caution: Use a Small Battery; What You Will Need; Generating Heat with Current; Background: Why Didn't Your Tongue Get Hot?; Fundamentals: Volt Basics; Fundamentals: Ampere Basics; How to Blow a Fuse; Fundamentals: Direct and Alternating Current; Background: Inventor of the Battery; Background: Father of Electromagnetism; Cleanup and Recycling; Experiment 3: Your First Circuit; What You Will Need; Setup; Fundamentals: Decoding Resistors; Lighting an LED; Checking a Resistor; Background: Puzzling Numbers; Cleanup and RecyclingExperiment 4: Variable ResistanceWhat You Will Need; Look Inside Your Potentiometer; Testing the Potentiometer; Caution: Don't Add Power; Caution: Destructive Experiment Ahead; Dimming Your LED; Measuring Potential Difference; Checking the Flow; Caution: Meter Overload; Checking the Current; Making Measurements; Fundamentals: Ohm's Law; Fundamentals: Series and Parallel; Using Ohm's Law; How Big a Resistor?; Background: Hot Wires; Fundamentals: Decimals; Theory: The Math on Your Tongue; Background: The Watt; Background: The Origins of Wattage; Cleanup and RecyclingExperiment 5: Let's Make a BatteryWhat You Will Need; Setup; Lemon Test: Part One; Theory: The Nature of Electricity; Background: Positive and Negative; Theory: Basic Measurements; Practically Speaking; Cleanup and Recycling; Chapter 2. Switching; Necessary Items for Chapter Two; Essential: Small Screwdrivers; Essential: Small Long-Nosed Pliers; Optional: Sharp-Nosed Pliers; Essential: Wire Cutters; Optional: Flush Cutters; Essential: Wire Strippers; Essential: Breadboards; Supplies; Essential: Hookup Wire; Jumpers; Optional: Stranded Wire; Components; Essential: Toggle SwitchEssential: Tactile SwitchEssential: Relay; Essential: Trimmer Potentiometer; Essential: Transistors; Essential: Capacitors; Essential: Resistors; Essential: Loudspeaker; And More?; Experiment 6: Very Simple Switching; What You Will Need; Fundamentals: All About Switches; Sparking; Checking Continuity; Background: Early Switching Systems; Introducing Schematics; Fundamentals: Basic Schematic Symbols; Schematic Layout; Crossovers; Colored Conductors; Experiment 7: Investigating a Relay; What You Will Need:; The Relay; Caution: Polarity Problems; Procedure; What's Going On Inside; Other Relays