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Stepper Motor Calculator

Tools

A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

Textbook

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

AC Instrumentation Transducers

Textbook

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

AC Commutator Motors

Textbook

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

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

Textbook

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

Textbook

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

Stepper Motors

Textbook

Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Other Specialized Motors

Textbook

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

Brushless DC Motor

Textbook

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Reluctance Motor

Textbook

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

Synchronous Motors

Textbook

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

Textbook

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

Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

Tools

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.

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

Textbook

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

Parallel Resistor Calculator

Tools

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.

Lorentz Force Calculator

Tools

This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

Tools

This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

Millman’s Theorem Revisited

Textbook

You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…

Analog Lab - Introduction

Textbook

In this series of hands-on electronics experiments, build analog circuits, including amplifiers, comparators, oscillators, and more. Following the step-by-step instructions will help you understand and appreciate analog systems.

What is Network Analysis?

Textbook

The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…

DC Lab - An Analog Computer For Averaging

Textbook

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.

Transistors, junction field-effect (JFET)

Textbook

Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…

Inductance

Worksheets - Industrial

∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

Positive Feedback

Textbook

As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…

AC Lab - Variable Inductor

Textbook

In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.

Capacitance Calculator

Tools

This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.

Sum and Product Notation

Textbook

For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…

Introduction to Junction Field-effect Transistors (JFET)

Textbook

A transistor is a semiconductor device that controls current with the…

Microwave Tubes

Textbook

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

Time Constant Circuits

Worksheets - Industrial

Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…

Mesh Current Method (Loop Current Method)

Textbook

This page provides a step-by-step introduction to using the mesh…

Digital Lab - 3-bit Binary Counter

Textbook

In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.

Counters

Worksheets - Industrial

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

Finite State Machines

Textbook

Up to now, every circuit that was presented was a combinatorial…

Mutual Inductors

Textbook

Mutual inductors are inductors that capitalize the effect of mutual…

pH Measurement

Textbook

A very important measurement in many liquid chemical processes…

Voltmeter Impact on Measured Circuit

Textbook

Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…