A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE is a…
One method of addressing the digital ramp ADC’s shortcomings is…
This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…
Despite lock-out/tag-out procedures and multiple repetitions of…
Bipolar Junction Transistor or BJT Current Mirror An often-used…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Calculator (or pencil and paper for doing…
A waveguide is a special form of transmission line consisting of a…
While the C-B (common-base) amplifier is known for wider bandwidth…
If two coils of wire are brought into close proximity with each other…
Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 555 timer IC (Radio Shack catalog # 276-1723) One…
Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries One 9-volt battery …
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Capacitance Formula Permittivity of Dielectric …
You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…
All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
Wire-by-Number project: simple voltage divider Description: Build a…
Power Capacity As has already been observed, transformers must be well…
If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Four 6 volt batteries One capacitor, 100 µF…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
The table of electric currents and their various bodily effects was…
Our next transistor configuration to study is a bit simpler for gain…
Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…
When students first see the parallel resistance equation, the natural…
Who Developed the Karnaugh Map? Maurice Karnaugh, a…
