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.
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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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.
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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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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.
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
A tool designed to compute the values to be used in a T-match Impedance Circuit
What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
Let’s take the following example circuit and analyze it: …
Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…