Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
“AC” stands for Alternating Current, which can refer to…
In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Four 6 volt batteries Operational amplifier, model…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Calculator (or pencil and paper for doing…
Explain how the microphone in your amplifier works. How, exactly, does…
Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
