AC/DC Electronics Laboratory
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Grade Level: College
Subject: Physics
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Activities
01) Circuits Experiment Board
In this lab, students will learn how to construct a simple circuit to power a light bulb. Students will practice representing electrical circuits with circuit diagrams and attempt to power two light bulbs.
02) Lights in Circuits
In this lab, students will investigate how various circuit arrangements influence the intensity of light produced by a light bulb. Students will manipulate their circuits and battery arrangements while exploring electrical circuits.
03) Ohm's Law
In this lab, students will explore the AC/DC Electronics Board using a multimeter. Students will measure current and voltage throughout a series of board manipulations. Their recordings will be used for Ohm's calculations and analysis.
04) Resistance in Circuits
In this lab, students will select three different resistors to place in circuits in parallel, series, and combination. Students construct their circuits and use their multimeter to determine how different combinations of their resistors influence circuit resistance. This is the first lab of a three-part series.
05) Voltages in Circuits
In this experiment, students will use the resistors they chose for Experiment 4 and a multimeter to explore voltages within circuits in series, parallel, and combination. You should complete Experiment 4 before working on this lab.
06) Currents in Circuits
In this lab, students will use their resistors from Experiments 3 and 4 to study currents in circuits in parallel, series, and combination.
07) Kirchhoff's Rules
In this lab, students will experimentally demonstrate Kirchhoff’s Rules for electrical circuits. Using the Digital Multimeter, students will record the voltage, current, and resistance of the circuit.
08) Capacitors in Circuits
In this lab, students will determine how capacitors behave in R-C circuits through circuit manipulation.
09) Diodes
In this lab, students will experimentally determine some of the most common operating characteristics of semiconductor diodes. Students will use their Digital Multimeters to explore forward bias and reverse bias.
10) Transistors
In this lab, students will experimentally determine some of the operating characteristics of a transistor. Students will use their multimeters to record resistance and voltage across their constructed circuit. They will use this data to calculate currents and study transistors.
11) Ohm's Law II
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the relationship between current and voltage in Ohmic and non-Ohmic materials.
12) RC Circuit
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate how the voltage across a capacitor varies as it charges, and to find the capacitive time constant.
13) LR Circuit
This experiment displays the voltages across the inductor and resistor of an inductor-resistor circuit (LR circuit) and the current through the inductor, so that the behavior of an inductor in a DC circuit can be studied.
14) LRC Circuit
The purpose of this experiment is to study resonance in an inductor-resistor-capacitor circuit (LRC circuit) by examining the current through the circuit as a function of the frequency of the applied voltage.
15) Diode Lab - Part One
In this experiment, you will investigate the properties of various types of diodes.
16) Diode Lab - Part Two
In this experiment, you will use diodes to rectify an AC signal and to build part of the basic circuitry of a power supply.
17) NPN Transistor as a Digital Switch
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate how the npn transistor operates as a digital switch.
18) Current Gain: NPN Emitter-Follower Amplifier
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the DC transfer characteristics of the npn transistor, and to determine the current gain of the transistor.
19) Transistor Lab: Common-Emitter Amplifier
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the voltage and current amplification characteristics of the npn transistor in a common-emitter amplifier circuit.
20) Induction - Magnet through a Coil
This experiment shows the Electromotive Force (EMF) induced in a coil when a magnet is dropped through the center of the coil.
