Rev. Confirming Pages
viii Class Discussion Items
9.6 Encoder 1X Circuit with Jitter 388
9.7 Robotic Arm with Encoders 389
9.8 Piezoresistive Effect in Strain Gages 396
9.9 Wheatstone Bridge Excitation Voltage 398
9.10 Bridge Resistances in Three-Wire Bridges 399
9.11 Strain Gage Bond Effects 404
9.12 Sampling Rate Fixator Strain Gages 407
9.13 Effects of Gravity on an Accelerometer 418
9.14 Piezoelectric Sound 424
10.1 Examples of Solenoids, Voice Coils,
and Relays 435
10.2 Eddy Currents 437
10.3 Field-Field Interaction in a Motor 440
10.4 Dissection of Radio Shack Motor 441
10.5 Stepper Motor Logic 461
10.6 Motor Sizing 467
10.7 Examples of Electric Motors 467
10.8 Force Generated by a Double-Acting
Cylinder 474
11.1 Derivative Filtering 493
11.2 Coin Counter Circuits 511
A.1 Definition of Base Units 523
A.2 Common Use of SI Prefixes 527
A.3 Physical Feel for SI Units 527
A.4 Statistical Calculations 532
A.5 Your Class Age Histogram 532
A.6 Relationship Between Standard
Deviation and Sample Size 533
C.1 Fracture Plane Orientation in a Tensile
Failure 544
6.14 Astable Square-Wave Generator 244
6.15 Digital Tachometer Accuracy 246
6.16 Digital Tachometer Latch Timing 246
6.17 Using Storage and Bypass Capacitors in
Digital Design 247
7.1 Car Microcontrollers 264
7.2 Decrement Past 0 273
7.3 PicBasic Pro and Assembly Language
Comparison 284
7.4 PicBasic Pro Equivalents of Assembly
Language Statements 284
7.5 Multiple Door and Window Security
System 287
7.6 PIC vs. Logic Gates 287
7.7 How Does Pot Work? 289
7.8 Software Debounce 290
7.9 Fast Counting 294
7.10 Negative Logic LED 343
8.1 Wagon Wheels and the Sampling
Theorem 349
8.2 Sampling a Beat Signal 350
8.3 Laboratory A/D Conversion 352
8.4 Selecting an A/D Converter 357
8.5 Bipolar 4-Bit D/A Converter 361
8.6 Audio CD Technology 363
8.7 Digital
Guitar 363
9.1 Household Three-Way Switch 379
9.2 LVDT Demodulation 381
9.3 LVDT Signal Filtering 383
9.4 Encoder Binary Code Problems 384
9.5 Gray-to-Binary-Code Conversion 387
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