CircuitJS/C3/Built-in-circuits-in-CircuitJS/English
| Visual Cue | Narration |
| Slide 1: | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Built-in circuits in CircuitJS |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial we will explore about
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System Requirements |
To record this tutorial, I am using:
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Prerequisites |
To follow this tutorial, you should have a basic knowledge of,
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| Let us open the CircuitJS interface. | |
| Cursor on the CircuitJS interface. | We will explore a few of the ready to use electronic circuits on the CircuitJS platform. |
| Click on the Circuits menu.
Point to the electronic circuits list. |
In the menu bar, click on the Circuits menu.
You can see a list of ready to use electronic circuits. Basic circuits such as Diodes, OP-AMPs, 555 Timer Chip and many other circuits are available. |
| Basic Circuits - Potentiometer | Let us see the working of a few circuits available here.
Go to the Basics in the list and select the Potentiometer circuit. |
| Point to 5-volt power supplies.
Point to slider named Resistance. |
This circuit is built using a 1 Kilo Ohm potentiometer and two 5-volt power supplies.
On the right side of your screen, you will see a slider named Resistance. This resistance slider is used to change the potentiometer value. |
| Point to the flow of electrons. | Notice the flow of electrons on both sides of the circuit.
The resistance value is 500 Ohms on each side of the circuit. |
| Drag the slider. | Use the slider to lower the potentiometer value.
Notice the flow of electrons in the left side of the circuit. Electrons in the left side move much faster than the electrons in the right side of the circuit. This is because the resistance for the left side of the circuit is less than that of the right side. |
| Drag the slider to right. | Now, change the potentiometer value by increasing the resistance slider.
For this condition, the electrons on the right side of the circuit are moving faster. This is because the resistance for the right side of the circuit is less than that of the left side. The flow of current in the circuit depends on the resistance of the circuit. |
| Click on the Circuits menu, go to Diodes >> select the Half wave rectifier from the list. | Now, let us open another circuit and explore it.
Click on the Circuits menu, go to Diodes and select the Half wave rectifier from the list. |
| Point to Half Wave Rectifier | This circuit is built using a diode, an AC power supply and a resistor.
The half wave rectifier converts only one cycle of an AC supply into a pulsating DC output. At the bottom of your screen, two graphs are displayed. |
| Point to the graphs | Input voltage is shown on the left graph and output voltage is shown on the right graph.
The diode allows either the positive or negative cycle of the input signal to pass through. In this circuit, the diode is connected in forward bias. It allows only the positive half cycle of the input signal to pass through. |
| Right click on the diode and select Swap terminals option. | Change the orientation of the diode for the reverse bias mode and notice the changes.
For this right click on the diode and select Swap terminals option. Note the graph. We can see the diode is passing the negative half cycle of the AC signal to pass through. |
| Half Wave Rectifier with capacitor
Use the swap terminals option to change the orientation of the diode to forward bias. |
We will now add a capacitor to the circuit and attempt to get a pure DC output.
First, use the swap terminals option to change the orientation of the diode to forward bias. |
| Click on Draw menu, go to Passive components and select Add Capacitor (Polarized).
Drag and draw the capacitor in the working area. |
Now, click on Draw menu, go to Passive components and select Add Capacitor (Polarized)
Drag and draw the capacitor in the working area. Make the changes in the circuit to connect the capacitor parallel to the resistor as shown. |
| Use edit option to change the capacitor value to 1000 microfarads | Use the edit option to change the capacitor value to 1000 microfarads
Notice the changes in the output graph. Changing the capacitor value can result in a pure DC output. The half-wave rectifier converts AC to pulsating DC by permitting current flow in one direction. |
| Click on the Circuits menu, go to Transistors >> select Multivibrators.
Choose the Astable Multivibrator circuit. |
Let us study another circuit available on the CircuitJS platform.
Click on the Circuits menu, go to Transistors and select Multivibrators. Then choose the Astable Multivibrator circuit. An astable multivibrator circuit will be shown on your screen. |
| Astable Multivibrator
Click on Draw, go to Outputs >> Labels, and select Add LED option. |
To understand how an astable multivibrator works, we will add two LEDs to the circuit.
Click on Draw, go to Outputs and Labels, and select Add LED option. |
| Drag and draw the LED in the working area. | Drag and draw the LED in the working area.
Now, remove the wire connected to the collector terminal of the Q1 transistor. Replace the wire with the LED. Similarly, remove the wire connected to the collector terminal of the Q2 transistor. |
| Right click on the LED component >> click on the Duplicate option. | Now, right click on the LED component and click on the Duplicate option.
A new LED will be generated in the working area. Connect this LED in the circuit as shown. |
| Astable Multivibrator.
Point to C1 connected to Q1. Point to C2 Connected to Q2. |
Capacitor C1 controls the LED connected to the Q1 transistor.
Capacitor C2 controls the LED connected to the Q2 transistor. |
| Point to the LEDs.
Point to the values of the capacitors. |
Notice the LEDs are turning ON and OFF at alternate times.
The LED is turned OFF when the capacitor is charging. And the LED is turned ON when the capacitor is discharging. The value of both the capacitors C1 and C2 is 18 microfarads. |
| Use the edit option for both the capacitors >> change their values to 100 microfarads. | Let us increase the capacitor value to see the changes in the circuit.
Use the edit option for both the capacitors and change their values to 100 microfarads. |
| Point to the LEDs.
Point to the capacitors. |
Notice the turn ON and turn OFF timing of both the LEDs have increased.
This is because of the change in values of the capacitors. Higher value capacitor takes more time to charge and discharge. Thus, while the capacitor is charging, the LED is turned OFF. And when the capacitor is discharging, the LED is turned ON. |
| Point to the circuit. | The astable multivibrator is used for signal generation and timing applications.
It offers continuous oscillation without external triggering. |
| Cursor on the CircuitJS interface. | This way, you can perform multiple experiments using the CircuitJS platform.
Explore the other built in circuits available in circuitJS. |
| This brings us to the end of the tutorial. Let us summarize. | |
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Summary |
In this tutorial, we explored the-
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Acknowledgement |
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