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Switches, Electrically Actuated (Relays)

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The structure behind ladder logic is based on the electrical ladder…

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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

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.

Synchronous Condenser

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

Inductor Commutating Circuits

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A popular use of diodes is for the mitigation of inductive…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

CMOS Logic Gates

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

Pulse Width Modulation

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

DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

Switch Contact Design

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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…

Time-delay Relays

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

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

Single-phase Induction Motors

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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…

Linear Computational Circuitry

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

DC Generator Theory

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

Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Electromagnetism

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The discovery of the relationship between magnetism and electricity…

Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

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Write the following exponential expressions in expanded form: 101 =…

Safety Grounding

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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…

Ohm’s Law Practice Worksheet With Answers

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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

Introduction to Complex Numbers

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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…

Si Lab - Zener Diode Voltage Regulator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple DC voltage regulator circuit and learn how to use reverse-biased Zener diodes as voltage clamps.

Miscellaneous Diode Applications

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

Digital-to-Analog Conversion

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If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…

Basic Oscilloscope Operation

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An oscilloscope is a very useful piece of electronic test equipment.…

Junction Diodes

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There was some historic crude, but usable were some historic crude,…

Optical Data Communication

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A modern alternative to sending (binary) digital information via…

Scientific Notation in SPICE

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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…

The common-drain Amplifier (JFET)

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Asymmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an asymmetric stripline

R, L and C Summary

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With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.

Si Lab - Full-wave Bridge Rectifier With Output Filtering

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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.

Inductor Voltage and Current Relationship

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Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…

Counter Modulus

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Waveguide Calculator (Circular)

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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide

Computer Simulation of Electric Circuits

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

Sequences

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Arithmetic Sequences An arithmetic sequence is a series of numbers…

Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

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The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem is not so much a means of analysis…

Square Root, Cube Root, and Nth Root Calculator

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This calculator will determine the square root, cube root, or nth root of a given number, x.

Introduction to Network Theorems for Circuit Analysis

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Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…

Basic identities

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Additive Identity a + 0 = a Multiplicative Identity 1a = a…

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

Power Density Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the power density of an antenna

Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.

Microwave Tubes

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For extremely high-frequency applications (above 1 GHz), the…

Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.

JFET Biasing Techniques

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Using an example, learn about the different bias techniques for junction field effect transistors (JFETs) like the constant voltage bias, self-bias configuration, and voltage divider biasing.

Meter Check of a Transistor (BJT)

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Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…

Boolean Arithmetic

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Let us begin our exploration of Boolean algebra by adding numbers…

DC Lab - Introduction

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In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, you will build direct current (DC) circuits and learn fundamental electrical engineering circuit concepts.

Single-phase Induction Motors

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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…

Summer and Subtractor OpAmp Circuits

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

Sum-of-Products and Product-of-Sums Expressions

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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…