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TTL Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Lorentz Force Calculator

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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

AC Bridge Circuits

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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…

Protective Relay Circuits

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Protective relays are special power-sensing devices whose job it is to…

Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

Contactors

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

Permissive and Interlock Circuits

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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

AC Lab - Large Induction Motor

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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.

Thyristor Application Circuits

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

AC Lab - Induction Motor

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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.

Three-phase Transformer Circuits

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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

AC Lab - Large Induction Motor

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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.

Solid-state Relays

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Limitations of Electromechanical Relays As versatile as…

Introduction to Diodes And Rectifiers

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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…

Resonance

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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…

Monostable Multivibrators

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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…

Torque Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert between units of torque

Synchronous Condenser

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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…

Time-delay Relays

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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.

Step-up and Step-down Transformers

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So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…

The TRIAC

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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…

Si Lab - Bipolar Transistor as a Switch

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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.

Miscellaneous Diode Applications

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

Stepper Motor Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor

The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) as a Switch

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

Permissive and Interlock Circuits

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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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

Reluctance Motor

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

Building Series-Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

Phase Rotation

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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…

What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

Harmonics in Polyphase Power Systems

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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…

Band-stop Filters

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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…

Thyristors

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Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…

Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

RF Power Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa

Sequences

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Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…

Computer Simulation of Electric Circuits

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Computers can be powerful tools if used properly, especially in the…

The Common-collector Amplifier

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Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…

Design Project: Event Counter

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If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…

Single-ended and Differential Amplifiers

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For ease of drawing complex circuit diagrams, electronic amplifiers…

The Pentode

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Another strategy for addressing the problem of secondary electrons…

Finite-state Machine

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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…

Trigonometric Derivatives

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Time-Delay Electromechanical Relays

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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…