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AC Commutator Motors

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

Stepper Motors

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Induction Motor

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PARTS AND MATERIALS AC power source: 120VAC Capacitor, 3.3 µF…

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

Automotive Alternator

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Project Parts and Materials Automotive alternator (one required, but…

Design Project: DC Motor

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

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

Rectifier Circuits

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555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

DC Generator Theory

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

Boolean Algebra

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Basic Operational Amplifiers

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Determine the output voltage polarity of this op-amp (with reference…

Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator

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This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.

Voltage Divider Circuits

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Resistivity Calculator

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This calculator calculates the resistivity of a component based on its resistance value, length, and cross-sectional area.

Digital Lab - Digital Combination Lock

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.

Series-Parallel DC Circuits

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Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits

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Specific Resistance

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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…

Analog Lab - High-impedance Voltmeter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a high-impedance voltmeter and learn about circuit loading and how to use op amps to reduce loading effects.

Resonant Filters

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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…

Radicals

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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…

Superposition Theorem

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Inductor Sizing Equation

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The Inductance Formula     Wheeler’s formulas for…

Vol V. Credits

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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…

Resistance, Reactance, and Impedance

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What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…

Valence and Crystal Structure

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

Battery Ratings

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Because batteries create current flow in a circuit by exchanging…

Complex Circuits

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What do we do if we come across a circuit more complex than the simple…

Table (landscape view)

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Periodic table of chemical elements.

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

Lock-out / Tag-out

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

Rules for Derivatives

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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

Amplifier Circuits

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Note, Q3 and Q4 in the figure below are complementary, NPN and PNP…

Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

Introduction to Complex Numbers

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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…

Voltage-to-Current Signal Conversion

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In instrumentation circuitry, DC signals are often used as analog…

Design Project: Voltmeter

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The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…

Ammeter Impact on Measured Circuit

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Just like voltmeters, ammeters tend to influence the amount of current…

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.

Conductor Size

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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…

Current Divider Circuits and the Current Divider Formula

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A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability…

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…

Phasor Mathematics

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Provide a definition for phasor, as the term applies to electrical…

Synchronous Condenser

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Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

DC Lab - Rheostat Range Limiting

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.

Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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Si Lab - Half-wave Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.