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Veritasium

How Does a Transistor Work?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Tiny transistors have a big job to do in all of our electronic devices ... so, how do they work? Discover the chemistry and physics behind semiconductive elements such as silicon through an intriguing video from Veritasium's playlist....
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Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students develop an understanding of micro-controllers and then answer a series of 13 open-ended questions about transistors that include analyzing schematics. This worksheet is printable and the...
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Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this physics instructional activity, students construct an electric circuit based on specific requirements. They complete 48 short answer questions related to the circuit.
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Insulate Gate Field-Effect Transistors

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of insulated gate field effect transistors before answering a series of 39 open-ended questions that include...
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Bipolar Junction Transistor Theory

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a bipolar transistor to grasp the understanding of bipolar junction transistor theory before answering a series of 28 open-ended questions. Students analyze...
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Bipolar Transistor Biasing Circuits

For Students Higher Ed
In this electronics worksheet, students analyze electrical circuits to answer 21 short answer and problem solving questions about bipolar transistors.
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Junction Field-Effect Transistors

For Students 10th - 12th
In this physics worksheet, students complete 43 conceptual questions on transistors. They define basic terms related to conductance.
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DC Branch Current Analysis

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
Engage your class in physics with this series of questions. The first question is the most hands-on and asks learners to build their own circuit. The rest of the questions are related to current analysis. Class members solve 7 problems...
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Bipolar Junction Transistors in Active Mode

For Students Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students analyze different schematic diagrams and answer the questions that follow. They solve and write short answers to 23 questions on circuits.
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Using Transistors: Let's Get Transistorized!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. This activity allow them to observe the operation of a transistor as an amplifier.
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Rechargeable Batteries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore how rechargeable batteries work by conducting a series of experiments. In this physics lesson, students discuss the benefits of using rechargeable batteries over disposable ones. They build their own battery...
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Electric Circuits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore energy by completing an electricity worksheet. In this conductors lesson, students define the energy related vocabulary terms circuit, electronics, conductor and semi-conductor before examining computer chips in class....
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Servo Motor Systems

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer  a series of 9 open-ended questions with schematics about motors and how they are used within certain types of electrical circuits.  This worksheet is printable and there...
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Optoelectronic Devices

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students design and build  circuit boards using photovoltaic cells to grasp the understanding of circuit design before answering a series of 10 open-ended questions. This worksheet is printable and...
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Clipper and Clamper Circuits Clipper and Clamper Circuits

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of circuit design including clipper and clamper circuits and  before answering a series of 21 open-ended questions that include...
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Special Diodes

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of diodes. Students answer a series of 8 open-ended questions. This worksheet is printable and there are on-line...
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Class A: BJT Amplifiers

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Within this electrical circuit learning exercise, students draw a schematic design and build a transmitter to grasp the understanding of bipolar junction amplifiers before answering a series of 62 open-ended questions in which they...
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Class B BJT Amplifiers

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this electrical circuit activity, students draw a schematic design and build a transmitter to grasp the understanding of bipolar junction transmitters before answering a series of 12 open-ended questions by analyzing schematic...
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Power Conversion Circuits

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet, students draw a schematic design and build a circuit board to grasp the understanding of power conversion circuits before answering a series of 30 open-ended questions including analyzing schematics. This...
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To Resist Or Not To Resist

For Students 7th - 12th
In this electric circuits worksheet, students will read about Georg Ohm and Ohm's law. Then students will complete 4 short answer questions.
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Inductance

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this inductance worksheet, students answer 20 questions about magnetic fields as they relate to inductors, inertia, transistors, and the flow of current through circuits.
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Crash Course

Boolean Logic and Logic Gates: Crash Course Computer Science #3

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Boolean logic just makes sense. A video teaches individuals about Boolean logic and its connection to the binary system. It shows how the operations NOT, AND, OR, and XOR are shown on electric circuits using transistors. 
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Crash Course

Silicon, Semiconductors, and Solar Cells: Crash Course Engineering #22

For Students 9th - 12th
Not a conductor, not an insulator, just a semiconductor. An engineering video focuses on silicon and semiconductors. It first describes N-type and P-type semiconductors, and then shows how they work together in diodes, transistors, and...
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Exploring Magnetism and Electricity

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore Faraday's Law. For this electromagnetism lesson, students investigate Michael Faraday. Students discover the history of the electromagnet. Students examine the parts of an electromagnet.

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