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AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

DC Motor Control Circuits

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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…

Other Specialized Motors

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

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

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

Design Project: DC Motor

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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

AC Commutator Motors

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

Reluctance Motor

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

DC Generator Theory

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

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Servo Motor Systems

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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

AC Commutator Motors

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

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.

Other Specialized Motors

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

Reluctance Motor

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

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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.

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

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The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

Parallel Resistor Calculator

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Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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

Programmable Logic Technology

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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…

Capacitors and Calculus

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

AC Capacitor Circuits

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

DC Lab - Potentiometer Voltage Divider

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.

Junction field-effect transistors (JFET)

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

Scientific Notation

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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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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.

Snell’s Law Calculator

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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.

Digital Lab - S-R Flip-flop Using NAND Gates

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.

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.

Microprocessors

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Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von…

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Inductor Voltage and Current Relationship

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

Polarity of voltage drops

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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…

Microstrip Inductance Calculator

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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.

Parallel Circuit Rules

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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…

Shift Registers

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

AC Lab - Frequency Analysis

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use the frequency spectrum display from an oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn about spectral analysis.