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Meter Math
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New for 2009: Free Virtual Circuit Kits:
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Contains both simple and very complex AC Circuits with virtual faults for troubleshooting.  Each kits come with a laboratory manual and much more! These Interactive Kits are the perfect companion for any textbook or electronic course!  


Science-ebooks.com is a desktop publisher of free eBooks and simulation software for electronic technicians and high school physics students.   We simulate sets of working and faulty circuit animations. The faulty circuits provide students with a truly interactive troubleshooting experience.   In 2009, we will focus on producing free virtual electronic kits with a lab manuals.  The kits are in the format of a folder containing GIF or MPEG circuit animations and a  Laboratory manual (PDF) eBook.  The advantage of downloading our animations is that today's modern media players such as QuickTime play GIFS and MPEGS better than browsers in that they permit students to freeze frames.  Teachers can download kits and use them indefinitely offline as part of their curriculum.  These FREE kits are perfect for students using self teaching books about electronics.  Our JavaScript circuit and physics simulations will remain on our Web sites.    

NEW (2008): Upgraded our Free online electronics course with  MP3 Lectures! Click here to start course!

  

Our Free e-book 

The key element of the Virtual Electronics Teaching system is our free eBook: Electronic Concepts. This e-book teaches electronics by explaining the operation of a variety of circuits.  It covers basic networks, transistors, regulated power supplies and much more.  Electronic Concepts is a hybrid e-book.  Our hybrid e-books are meant to be read while viewing an Internet slideshow using our Internet Slide Show Control Matrix.   Electronic Concepts can be downloaded from the Slide Show Control Matrix page in Zipped PDF format. [ Go there! ] Download and print book.  Read book while watching slideshow.   Electronic Concepts can be downloaded from the Slide Show Control Matrix page in zipped PDF format. [ Go there! ] Download and print* book.  Read book while watching slideshow. Book directs you to control online slideshow by clicking a specific number in a matrix of numbers.

* You can view eBook on your computer if you want to save paper, but window switching is a little cumbersome.

Our latest (2008) Hybrid e-book:  Force Fields - A Physics E&M  Primer for Electronic Students

Hybrid System 

OBJECT -------------------------------   READER ACTION

Printed e-Book                                    Read

Slide Show Control Matrix                  Click Number( Pointer to Object )

Simulation or Animation                     Interact 

 Go to Slide Show Control Matrix page and download  Electrontics Concepts, Click here!  or download our latest e-book: Force Fields :  A free Physics E&M  Primer for Electronic Students

 

Older (Pre-Hybrid) Publications:

Click here to see a complete listing of our online eBooks, laboratories, libraries; and other publications.  We integrate electronics, physics, and mathematical online troubleshooting to provide performance orientated technical education.

     

System Troubleshooting 

We have developed four interactive online methods of teaching system troubleshooting; namely: Electronics Troubleshooting, Physics system Troubleshooting, Numerical Troubleshooting, and JavaScript programming.  This eBook is an example of the electronics troubleshooting method. To see examples of the other three methods, select one of the following:

Physics System Troubleshooting 
Numerical Troubleshooting
JavaScript Programming

For those simply looking for conventional free online electronics tutorials, we maintain an excellent library of links. Go there!

Attention High school Students: 

The most difficult aspects of becoming a system or electronics technician are taught in High school.  Take all the algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and physics courses available in High school and you can be taught electronics in a half year.  I attended army schools that did just that.  Once you mastered these subjects you could learn electronic troubleshooting from reading books or Web material.  My site provides you with free simulations to test and develop your troubleshooting skills.  


Teachers: 

Inserting faults in circuits to provide students with troubleshooting experience is a time consuming and difficult task.  It is difficult to insert faults into circuits that will not easily be found by inspection. Furthermore, it is usually easy for a student to troubleshoot a circuit that he or she designed and/or assembled.  My circuit animations provide virtual troubleshooting experience for students. I would like to hear from teachers who use my site.  Positive or negative feedback will be appreciated. Use email address at bottom of page.

AB0UT WEBMASTER 
I have a BS degree in physics and have specialized in fault isolation (troubleshooting) on systems ranging from vacuum tube missile guidance systems to mainframe computers. I also taught digital electronics at Washington Technical institute for 2 years. I am presently retired from Boeing.  

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Future Publication policy:

In 2009 science-ebooks.com will focus on the distribution of free kits containing animations and simulations of electronic circuits. Today students have a wide variety of choices of free books about electronics. They can get paper books from the public library or choose from a broad list of online tutorials. My animated eBooks about physics or electronics have been well received, but have had to share the Internet market place with many other electronics internet sites. My research has shown that there is an ample supply of tutorials about electronics on the internet. Therefore, I have decided to switch from creating virtual animated books to producing free virtual circuits and laboratory kits. In many cases my virtual circuits are better than brick and mortar electronics laboratory experiments. Building real circuits on bread boards is a good exercise, but soon becomes a repetitive waste of time. The purpose of my Kits is to provide a virtual interactive electronics laboratory experience for technical students. Students studying electronics from a book should find this extremely useful. My virtual electronics animations and simulations clearly demonstrate the principles of circuit operation. Virtual troubleshooting is the best feature of my software. I insert faults into many of my virtual circuits, so that student can practice their troubleshooting skills. This allows students teaching themselves electronics to practice troubleshooting without the benefit of expensive test equipment. Schools can use my kits consisting of virtual circuits and save the cost of stocking electronic components. When I taught electronics at a technical school, I spent lots of time checking and replacing the parts missing from lab kits. Students wasted time bread boarding circuits that were really already designed in their textbook. Teachers spent lots of time inserting shorts or opens in circuit that the students had bread boarded. My animations are free and the faults that I insert cannot be found by visual inspection. The advantages of virtual troubleshooting are:

 

1.0 Low cost of virtual circuits.  

2.0 Student cannot find the fault by inspection.  

3.0 No time consuming fault insertion required.  

4.0 Supplements Teach Yourself Electronics Books with a virtual laboratory.  

5.0 The Hands off fault isolation techniques that I teach are becoming ever more prevalent.

6.0 Standalone curriculum. Teachers can download kits and use simulation off line. Forever* * Animations can be used indefinitely even if my site shuts down.

 

The disadvantages of my virtual troubleshooting exercises are:

 

1.0 They do not teach SAFTY. Virtual circuits cannot shock and do not contain Hazardous materials.

 

2.0 Do not teach setting up tests using real test equipment.

 

3.0 Cannot duplicate the full range of physical phenomena that one encounters in real circuits.

 

4.0 Technicians do not learn to solder, wire wrap, and operate test equipment.

 

In short my animations only support hands off troubleshooting. Much of modern troubleshooting is hands off and only involves analysis of data displayed on a screen. When I began troubleshooting in 1964, I used meters and scopes to analyze faults to the component level. When I retired in 1998, 90% of the time I analyzed electronic system data that was displayed on CRT in order to fault isolate to the module level. Troubleshooting to the component level was accomplished on an external module test fixture. Today cars are troubleshot in the same manner. Cable TV companies also generate data displays for their service technicians. If I press the right sequence of buttons on my cable TV remote control, I get displays showing the decibel level of input signal over a range of frequencies. How Can Animations be interactive? The slider control of the media player allows for both forward and backward movement in time. By sequential frame by frame filming of one of my simulations while turning a knob on this simulation, an animation is created that appears truly interactive. The slider control that operates in the time domain appears to be operating in the frequency domain. The slider control can also mimic the control of a variable resistor or other adjustable device.

 

 

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