Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Audio detector with headphones Electromagnet coil…
Transformers with Multiple Secondaries Transformers are very versatile…
What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Steel flat bar, 4 pieces Miscellaneous bolts,…
A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Power transformer, 120VAC step-down to 12VAC,…
So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4001 quad NOR gate (Radio Shack catalog #…
Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
PARTS AND MATERIALS AC power source: 120VAC Capacitor, 3.3 µF…
While the binary numeration system is an interesting mathematical…
De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Solving for x in a given polynomial equation “ax2 + bx + c…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze relay…
Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…
The electrical resistance of a conductor at any temperature may be…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Low-voltage AC power supply (6-volt output) Two…
This calculator calculates the resistivity of a component based on its resistance value, length, and cross-sectional area.
Product of Powers Property am an = am+n Power of a Product…
Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…
The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…
What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
The metric system, besides being a collection of measurement units for…
A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
When inductors are connected in series, the total inductance is the…
There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
Programming a circuit simulation with SPICE is much like programming…
A semiconductor device is one made of silicon or any number of other…
What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
Research and describe what the Hall effect is, and list some practical…
Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…
The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…
This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
It is a common phenomenon for the electrical resistance of a substance…
A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…
