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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
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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 an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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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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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a Schmitt trigger using a 555 timer and learn about hysteresis and the inner workings of the extremely versatile 555 timer IC.
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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…
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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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If your event sensing switch is mechanical in nature, you will likely…
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a BJT differential amplifier and learn about a fundamental building block that is the basis of most operational amplifiers.
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Identify some different ways you can create the sine-wave audio tracks…
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Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…
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There are three major kinds of power supplies: unregulated (also…
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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
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In many disciplines of science and engineering, very large and very…
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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will compare the resistance of a lamp filament in its on and off states and learn about nonlinear resistances by applying Ohm's law.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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The principle of non-sinusoidal, repeating waveforms being equivalent…
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<p> Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological…
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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
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Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance …
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
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In Millman’s Theorem, the circuit is re-drawn as a parallel…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog integrator using an operational amplifier and learn about integration functions, op amp input bias currents, and how to limit the voltage swing of a potentiometer.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.
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Definition of a Radical Given the expression where “x” is…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a T-pad attenuator.
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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…
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Learn About L/R Time Constants It is often perplexing to new students…
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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
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With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple circuit that computes the average of voltages and learn about analog computers and their application.
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