A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One 12AX7 dual triode vacuum tube Two power…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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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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We can subtract one binary number from another by using the standard…
The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…
SPICE is a computer program designed to simulate analog electronic…
∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…
It is sometimes desirable to have circuits capable of selectively…
Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
If we were to connect two inverter gates together so that the output…
If we were to express the series-connected DC voltages as phasors…
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On this page, we’ll outline the three principles you should…
A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.
Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a rectangle loop.
Once again, when building battery/resistor circuits, the student or…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…
It may seem difficult to even start on a project such as this, with no…
The nonlinearity of material permeability may be graphed for better…
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If I wanted to build a battery-powered electric drill, would it be…
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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
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Insulated gate field-effect transistors are unipolar devices just like…
A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with…
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a Pi Attenuator.
Learning Objectives Rheostat use Wiring a potentiometer as a rheostat…
These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
In our study of AC circuits thus far, we’ve explored circuits…
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