Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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A tool designed to convert between units of torque
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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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.
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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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.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.
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Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather…
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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…
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Testing a JFET with a multimeter might seem to be a relatively easy…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use potentiometers to vary a voltage and learn about voltage divider ratios and potentiometer applications.
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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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In this electrical circuit, trace the direction of current through the…
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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure current using the ammeter function.
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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Tables of specific resistance and temperature coefficient of…
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Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…
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Resonance in a Tank Circuit A condition of resonance will be…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Electronic power conversion circuits known…
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Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…
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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
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Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…
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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…
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It was discovered centuries ago that certain types of materials would…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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