What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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Before the advent of solid-state logic circuits, logical control…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…
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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.
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?
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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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What does it mean, in general terms, to encode something? Conversely,…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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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.
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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…
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“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…
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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.
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.
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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…
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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…
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Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors.…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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Since the enable input on a gated S-R latch provides a way to latch…
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…
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One of the more advanced ADC technologies is the so-called…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
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Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…
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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…
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In this hands-on semiconductor experiment, build an improved full-wave rectifier with output filtering and learn about capacitive filtering in AC-to-DC power converters.
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So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…
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