Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
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.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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.
This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test mixed-signal analog and digital circuits using the versatile 555 timer IC. These projects will teach you about RC time constants, duty cycle, transistor current drive, LEDs, voltage doublers, and more.
Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.
In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
Value of time constant in series RC and RL circuits Time…
What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
Using an example, learn about the different bias techniques for junction field effect transistors (JFETs) like the constant voltage bias, self-bias configuration, and voltage divider biasing.
If a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal is sent to a passive…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
Shockley Diodes and Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) Shockley…
As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…
Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
