1. Basic Laws of Electric Cicuits II

2. Overview Review of DC Electronics RC Circuits and Diodes
Alternating Current (AC) signals
Applying AC to a diode circuit
Converting AC current to DC current
Signal Generators and Oscilloscopes
Using Robot to generate audio tones
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3. Review Ohm’s Law: V=IR Power Consumption: P=IV
Series Resistance: RT=R1+R2
Parallel Resistance: RT= R1xR2
R1+R2
How to layout a circuit on a breadboard

4. Lab--The Breadboard
Vin (6 V)
Vss (Ground)
Each row is
Connected

5. Wire the following parallel circuit on the breadboard
i i2
6 W W 6V

6. The Parallel circuit from previous slide
Vin (6 V)
Vss (Ground)

7. A Series Circuit
Vin (6 V)
Vss (Ground)

8. Measure Voltage in Parallel
Vin (6 V)
Vss (Ground) V

9. Measure Current in Series
Vin (6 V)
Vss (Ground) A

10. RC CIRCUIT – DC
- VC +
This is similar but the capacitor charges non-linearly till the voltage across it reaches the applied voltage after which the driving force is lost. Time constant τ=RC is the time in which the capacitor is charged to 63% τ

12. Diode Types Rectifier Diodes Light Emitting Diodes (LED) Photodiodes
Zener Diodes
Schottky Diodes

13. Diode Applications Reverse Voltage Protection Rectifying Display
Light Sensing

14. Diode is either ON or OFF

15. ON is like a short circuit, OFF is open

16. Alternating Current (AC) Applied to Diode

17. Intro to Sine Waves
Most common of all wave forms and is produced by all rotating machines
One sine wave contains electrical degrees
Each complete wave form is called a “cycle”
Number of cycles in one second is the “frequency”
Frequency is measured in “hertz”
US and Canada is 60 Hz (most common)
Voltage reaches the end of the cycle 60 times each second

18. Averaging Voltage with a Capacitor

19. Full-wave ripple frequency is twice AC frequency

20. Diode Bridge

21. Oscilloscope—used to examine AC signals
Applet Oscilloscope
Oscilloscope Explained
Oscilloscopes are commonly used to measure voltages which are functions of time
             
Oscilloscopes are used by everyone from television repair technicians to physicists. They are indispensable for anyone designing or repairing electronic equipment. The usefulness of an oscilloscope is not limited to the world of electronics. With the proper transducer, an oscilloscope can measure all kinds of phenomena. A transducer is a device that creates an electrical signal in response to physical stimuli, such as sound, mechanical stress, pressure, light, or heat. For example, a microphone is a transducer. An automotive engineer uses an oscilloscope to measure engine vibrations. A medical researcher uses an oscilloscope to measure brain waves. The possibilities are endless.
The oscilloscope is basically a graph-displaying device -- it draws a graph of an electrical signal. In most applications the graph shows how signals change over time: the vertical (Y) axis represents voltage and the horizontal (X) axis represents time. The intensity or brightness of the display is sometimes called the Z axis. (his simple graph can tell you many things about a signal. Here are a few:
You can determine the time and voltage values of a signal.
You can calculate the frequency of an oscillating signal.
You can see the "moving parts" of a circuit represented by the signal.
You can tell how often a particular portion of the signal is occurring relative to other portions.
You can tell if a malfunctioning component is distorting the signal.
You can find out how much of a signal is direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC).
You can tell how much of the signal is noise and whether the noise is changing with time.

22. Oscilloscope Waveforms

23. Signal Generator—your source for AC signals
Used to simulate a signal to be viewed on an oscilloscope for circuit card testing.

24. Build this circuit on Breadboard
Scope
Signal
Generator
Measure voltage (with scope) at signal generator
and at resistor
Change frequency of sinewave and notice
effect on resistor voltage
What frequency gives you 0.1 mV ripple?

25. Your Robot can generate AC too!
freqout 2, 1000, 2000
A 2000 Hertz sinewave for 1000 msec at
pin 2
freqout 2, 1000, 2000, 2500
Simultaneous 2000 and 2500 Hertz
sinewaves
More complicated sequence possible
With for loops (see handout)

26. This is just beginning for Electrical Engineering
Digital circuits and logic
Computation Architectures
Signals and systems
Digital signal processing
Integrated circuits
Instrumentation for data acquisition
Power generators