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Wire Self Inductance Calculator

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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Solving Simultaneous Equations: The Substitution Method and the Addition Method

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What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…

Connectors

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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…

Circuit Wiring

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So far, we’ve been analyzing single-battery, single-resistor…

A 50-Ohm Cable?

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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Contactors

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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…

AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

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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.

Introduction to Conductance and Conductors

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By now you should be well aware of the correlation between electrical…

Specific Resistance

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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…

Permissive and Interlock Circuits

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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…

Wiring Color Codes

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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…

Derivative of a Constant

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    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Antiderivatives of Power Functions of e

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  Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…

What is the Relationship Between Conductance and Resistance?

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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.

Time-delay Relays

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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

Inductors

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An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…

Capacitor Transient Response

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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…

Calculus for Electric Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Heat Sink Calculator

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This calculator helps determine the maximum temperature a device can withstand

Node Voltage Method

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

Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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Safety is very important when designing and/or building a device…

How to Use Thevenin’s Theorem

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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

A Binary Adder

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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…

DC Lab - Rate-of-change Indicator

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.

Vol II. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

The R/2R DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)

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The R/2R DAC circuit is an alternative to the binary-weighted-input…

Simple Parallel (Tank Circuit) Resonance

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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…

Venn Diagrams and Sets

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Mathematicians use Venn diagrams to show the logical relationships of…

Stripline Trace Width Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating

TTL NAND and AND gates

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

RMS Voltage Calculator

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This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.

Overcurrent Protection

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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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

T-Pad Attenuator Calculator

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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.

Square Wave Signals

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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…

Contributors (9)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…

Boolean Rules for Simplification

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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…

The “Operational” Amplifier

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Long before the advent of digital electronic technology, computers…

Tracking ADC

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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Let’s analyze a simple series circuit and determine the voltage…

Intro Lab - A Simple Lighting Circuit

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.

Step-up and Step-down Transformers

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So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…

Computer Simulation of Electric Circuits

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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…

DeMorgan’s Theorems

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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…

Electrons and “holes’’

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Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…

Millman’s Theorem

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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…

Magnetic Units of Measurement

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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…

Shift Registers

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