The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 6-volt battery Low-voltage incandescent lamp…
When students first see the parallel resistance equation, the natural…
Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…
Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…
The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
Wiring Color Codes Infographic. Released under the Creative Commons…
This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
Project Parts and Materials Automotive alternator (one required, but…
Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…
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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Three NPN transistors—model 2N2222 or 2N3403…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…
Power Equation of Ohm’s Law and Joule’s Law …
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit
This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp
One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries Carbon pencil…
If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
Ammeters Measure Electrical Current A meter designed to measure…
In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
In order to build the circuits described in this volume, you will need…
Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…
Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…
All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One N-channel junction field-effect transistor,…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…
Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…
The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
Also known as the stairstep-ramp, or simply counter A/D converter,…
An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
