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Copper Wire Ampacity Table

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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

Wire Self Inductance Calculator

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

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Arithmetic Properties

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Associative Property In addition and multiplication, terms may be…

Specific Resistance

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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…

Contactors

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

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

Conductor Ampacity

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The smaller the cross-sectional area of any given wire, the greater…

Introduction to Conductance and Conductors

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

Characteristic Impedance

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The Parallel Wires of Infinite Length Suppose, though, that we had a…

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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

Common Sources of Hazard

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

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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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.

Networks and Busses

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

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Three-phase Y and Delta Configurations

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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…

Wire Loop Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.

Conductors, Insulators, and Electron Flow

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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…

Derivative of a Constant

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    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

Design Project: Signal Generator

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Explain the principle of operation for the particular integrated…

Ring Counters

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If the output of a shift register is fed back to the input. a ring…

Meter Check of a Transistor (JFET)

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Testing a JFET with a multimeter might seem to be a relatively easy…

Common Antiderivatives

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Permissive and Interlock Circuits

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

Design Project: Telegraph System

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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

Ionization (gas-filled) Tubes

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So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…

Fundamentals of Radio Communication

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What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…

555 Timer Monostable Circuit Calculator

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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit

Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Inductive Reactance

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

An Analogy for Ohm’s Law

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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…

Synchronous Counters

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What is a Synchronous Counter? A synchronous counter, in contrast to…

Likely Failures in Unproven Systems

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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Ammeter Design

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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors

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

AC Resistor Circuits (Inductive)

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Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…

Digital Lab - 10-bit Flashing LED Sequencer

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.

Trigonometry for AC Circuits

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Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…

Flip-Flop Circuits

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

Rules for Antiderivatives

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Constant Rule     Rule of Sums     Rule of…

Simple AC Circuit Calculations

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Over the course of the next few chapters, you will learn that AC…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

Elementary Amplifier Theory

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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…

Mesh Current Method (Loop Current Method)

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This page provides a step-by-step introduction to using the mesh…

Data Flow

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Buses and networks are designed to allow communication to occur…

Resonant Filters

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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…

Safe Circuit Design

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As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…

Phase Rotation

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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…

Safe Practices

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If at all possible, shut off the power to a circuit before performing…

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Inductance

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

Factors Affecting Capacitance

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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…

Full-Adder

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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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

Summary of Filters

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As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.

Negative Binary Numbers

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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…