Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
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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.
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
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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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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…
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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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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 this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
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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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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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Up until this point, our analysis of transistor logic circuits has…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.
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What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
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What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…
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Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
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Because capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, they…
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As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
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Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
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Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.
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