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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
A tool designed to convert between units of torque
What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Low-voltage AC power supply (6-volt output) Two…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two AAA Batteries Battery Clip (Radio Shack…
What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Audio detector with headphones Electromagnet coil…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
The structure behind ladder logic is based on the electrical ladder…
A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
In order to build the circuits described in this volume, you will need…
This calculator shows the peak-to-peak voltage (VP-P) value from the peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…
What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
Write the following exponential expressions in expanded form: 101 =…
A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries Carbon pencil…
Try out our Resistor Color Code Calculator in our Tools section.…
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
Since complex numbers are legitimate mathematical entities, just like…
Starting with circle A in a rectangular A’ universe in figure…
“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE is a…
All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…
In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
Many different equations used in the analysis of electric circuits may…
A calculator designed to compute the power-added efficiency (PAE) of an amplifier
A calculator for computing the impedance of a wire stripline.
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
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As with inductors, the ideal capacitor is a purely reactive device,…
So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
In simple reactive circuits with little or no resistance, the effects…
The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…
