Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
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One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…
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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an electromagnet and learn about electromagnetism including the relationship of magnetic polarity to current flow.
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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
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Inductors have the exact opposite characteristics of capacitors.…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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The expression of numerical quantities is something we tend to take…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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There was some historic crude, but usable semiconductor…
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Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
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The superposition theorem is one of those strokes of genius that takes…
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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…
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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
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Why learn about Karnaugh maps? The Karnaugh map, like Boolean…
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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…
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One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
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Capacitance Formula Permittivity of Dielectric …
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
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Because it takes energy to force charge to flow against the opposition…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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