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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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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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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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The structure behind ladder logic is based on the electrical ladder…
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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.
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In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.
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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…
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In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
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De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…
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Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
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A circuit with an inductor (L) and capacitor (C) connected in parallel or series will have a resonant frequency at which their impedances are equal. Given two of the three values—inductance, capacitance, or resonant frequency—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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