Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
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The Rules of Binary Addition Adding binary numbers is a very simple…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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Unijunction transistor: Although a unijunction transistor is not a…
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This calculator determines the wavelength of a signal given the frequency and dielectric constant.
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In order to work with complex numbers without drawing vectors, we…
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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…
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What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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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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The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…
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“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum…
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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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This calculator calculates the RMS Voltage value from either the peak voltage, the peak-to-peak voltage, or the average voltage.
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Wiring for AC and DC power distribution branch circuits are color…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in a…
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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline
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Because of their insulated gates, IGFETs of all types have extremely…
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Sometimes it is necessary to determine the length of time that a…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple RC circuit that demonstrates phase shift and learn how out-of-phase AC voltages do not add algebraically.
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
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There are two basic Ohm’s Law equations: one relating voltage,…
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The fourth example has A partially overlapping B. Though, we will…
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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
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In the chapter on mixed-frequency signals, we explored the concept of…
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.
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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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If you’ve used DOS or UNIX operating systems before in 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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Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…
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Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…
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The circuit shown here is a four-bit analog-to-digital converter…
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As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an S-R latch using two NOR gates and learn how this type of digital memory operates, including invalid states, race conditions, and the effects of output loading.
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