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Networks and Busses

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

Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

Copper Wire Gauge Table

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Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…

Derivatives of Power Functions of e

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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Introduction to Conductance and Conductors

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

Rules for Derivatives

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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

Common Antiderivatives

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Analog and Digital Signals

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

Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Wiring Color Codes

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

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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

Conductor Ampacity

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

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

The Antiderivative (Indefinite Integral)

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  Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…

Electrical Conduction in Semiconductors

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In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…

Networks and Busses

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

Contact “Bounce”

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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…

Contactors

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

Common Sources of Hazard

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

Resistor Color Code Calculator and Chart—4 Band, 5 Band, or 6 Band Resistors

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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.

Microstrip Trace Width Calculator

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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip

Series-Parallel Combination AC Circuits

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

Non-right Triangle Trigonometry

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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…

Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.

Batteries

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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…

Transistors, junction field-effect (JFET)

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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…

AC Lab - Variable Inductor

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.

Hysteresis

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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…

An Analogy for Ohm’s Law

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

Protective Relays

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A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…

Op-Amp Data

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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…

Digital Display Circuits

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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…

Lock-out / Tag-out

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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…

EIRP Calculator

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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna

Square Wave Signals

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

The Unijunction Transistor (UJT)

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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…

Battery Life Calculator

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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.

Sum and Product Notation

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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

Si Lab - Half-wave Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.