It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
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A tool designed to calculate skin depth based on the conductive material being used and the frequency of the signal.
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Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
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Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
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Using an electrical meter safely and efficiently is perhaps the most…
Solve this equation for the value of x: x + 5 = 8 How many exact…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries Carbon pencil…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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This tool calculates the cutoff frequency of a circular waveguide
What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
PARTS AND MATERIALS High-quality “closed-cup” audio…
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Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…
Euler’s Number Euler’s constant is an important value for…
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This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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The purpose of the parallel-in/ parallel-out shift register is to take…
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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Low-voltage AC power supply (6-volt output) Two…
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Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…
Mathematical rules are based on the defining limits we place on the…
The benefits of scientific notation do not end with ease of writing…
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