What is Alternating Current (AC)?

Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

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Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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AC Commutator Motors

Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

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Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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

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AC Lab - Large Induction Motor

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.

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Reluctance Motor

The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

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Synchronous Motors

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

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AC Lab - Induction Motor

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.

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Other Specialized Motors

Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

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Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

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Valence and Crystal Structure

Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…

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Quantum Devices

Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…

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Battery Ratings

Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…

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Transistor Ratings and Packages (IGFET)

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Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

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Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a full-wave bridge rectifier using silicon diodes and learn some of this circuit's advantages and disadvantages.

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Binary Overflow

One caveat with signed binary numbers is that of overflow, where the…

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Design Project: Dual-output AC-DC Power Supply

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

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Other Waveshapes

As strange as it may seem, any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform is…

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IC Fabrication and Packaging

What does it mean if an integrated circuit comes in DIP form? What…

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The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) as a Switch

Bipolar junction transistors (Also known as BJTs) can be used as an…

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Si Lab - Commutating Diode

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.

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Peak to Peak Voltage Calculator (VP-P)

This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.

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Introduction to Electron Tubes

An often neglected area of study in modern electronics is that of…

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AC Phase

Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…

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Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…

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Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

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Series LED Resistor Calculator

This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.

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Successive Approximation ADC

One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…

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Factors Affecting Inductance

There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…

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