Lorentz Force Calculator

This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

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DC Lab - Potentiometer as a Rheostat

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.

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Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

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Fundamentals of Radio Communication

What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

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Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

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Memory Devices

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

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Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.

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Single-phase Induction Motors

A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…

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Stepper Motors

Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

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Microcontroller Principles

Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

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AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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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Stepper Motors

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

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Servo Motor Systems

Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

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Introduction to AC Motors

After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

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Synchronous Motors

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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Brushless DC Motor

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

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Polyphase Motor Design

AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

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Radio Circuits

(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

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SPICE Models

The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

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Parallel Resistor Calculator

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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Design Project: DC Motor

The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

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Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

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Contributors (1)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Binary Subtraction

We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…

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Node Voltage Method

The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…

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Brushless DC Motor

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

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LC Resonant Frequency Calculator

A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.

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DC Lab - Capacitor Charging and Discharging

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.

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Monostable Multivibrators

We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…

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Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

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Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)

What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…

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Questions relating to project management

NAME:…

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DC Generator Theory

Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

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Conversion From Decimal Numeration

Because octal and hexadecimal numeration systems have bases that are…

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SPICE Quirks

“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous   SPICE…

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Questions to Ask Before Proceeding

Has the system ever worked before? If yes, has anything happened to…

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Microphones

Explain how a moving-coil, or dynamic microphone works. Identify how…

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Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…

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Analysis Options

AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…

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Slope (integrating) ADC

So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

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Contributors (13)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Fundamentals of Radio Communication

What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

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