Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.

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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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Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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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Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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.

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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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Introduction to AC Motors

After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

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Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…

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Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

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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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Microcontroller Principles

Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

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AC Motor Control Circuits

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

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Other Specialized Motors

Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

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Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

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Servo Motor Systems

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

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Principles of Radio

One of the more fascinating applications of electricity is in the…

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AC Motor Theory

Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

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DC Motor Theory

If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

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Networks and Busses

The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

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Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…

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Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

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Radio Circuits

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

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Inverting and Noninverting OpAmp Voltage Amplifier Circuits

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

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Safety Grounding

In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

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Wound Rotor Induction Motors

A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

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Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.

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Fuses

Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…

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Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…

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The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

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Permanent Magnets

Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…

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Special Diodes

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

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The TRIAC

SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…

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The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) as a Switch

Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…

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What is a Series-Parallel Circuit?

With simple series circuits, all components are connected end-to-end…

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Physiological Effects of Electricity

Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…

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Comparator with Hysteresis (Schmitt Trigger) Calculator

This calculator will compute the required resistor ratio (R2/R1) and reference voltage (VREF) to create the desired high (VTH) and low (VTL) threshold voltages in a non-inverting comparator circuit with hysteresis (commonly called a Schmitt trigger).

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Permeability and Saturation

The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…

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Boolean Algebra

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

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Torque Conversion Calculator

A tool designed to convert between units of torque

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Performance-Based Assessments for Semiconductor Circuit Competencies

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Series Resistor-Inductor Circuits

In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…

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TTL NAND and AND gates

Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

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Peak Voltage Calculator

The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.

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Electric Shock

It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

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Complex Voltage and Current Calculations

There are circumstances when you may need to analyze a DC reactive…

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Decibel Calculator

This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.

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