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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.

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.

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.

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

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.

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

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.

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

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Reluctance Motor

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

Other Specialized Motors

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

AC Commutator Motors

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

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.

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

What is Network Analysis?

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

Vectors and AC Waveforms

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OK, so how exactly can we represent AC quantities of voltage or…

Twisted-Pair Impedance Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable

Decibel Measurements

Worksheets - Sensors

During the early development of telephone technology, a unit was…

Harmonics in Polyphase Power Systems

Textbook

In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…

Insulated Gate Field-Effect Transistors

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

Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL)

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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…

Arithmetic with Scientific Notation

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The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…

Electron Activity in Chemical Reactions

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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…

Valence and Crystal Structure

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Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

What is the Difference Between Series and Parallel Circuits?

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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…

Shift Registers: Parallel-in, Serial-out (PISO) Conversion

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Parallel-in/ serial-out shift registers do everything that the…

DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.

Analog and Digital Signals

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Instrumentation is a field of study and work centering on measurement…

Special Diodes

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

Minterm vs Maxterm Solution

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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…

Superconductivity

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Conductors lose all of their electrical resistance when cooled to…

Lock-out / Tag-out

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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…