In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…
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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…
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A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls current with the…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
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AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…
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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
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Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…
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A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
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Temperature coefficient (α) per degree C: Material Element/Alloy…
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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…
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How is it possible to assign a fixed value of voltage or current (such…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
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A calculator for computing the inductance of a coaxial cable.
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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…
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Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
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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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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…
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This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…
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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…
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Design a passive circuit that will create a "split” ( V/-V) power…
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
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Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…
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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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This calculator provides three options—basic, intermediate, and advanced—for determining expected battery life for microcontroller, Internet of Things (IoT), and edge processing systems with up to four different operating modes.
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It is imperative to understand that the type of numeration system used…
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