Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
A tool designed to convert between units of torque
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…
If you’ve ever witnessed a lightning storm, you’ve seen…
Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…
Knowing how to generate Gray code should allow us to build larger…
“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) to switch an LED and learn about the current their amplification.
Like bipolar transistors, SCRs and TRIACs are also manufactured as…
Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…
Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.