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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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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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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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
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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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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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A tool designed to convert between units of torque
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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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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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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A circuit which removes the peak of a waveform is known as a clipper.…
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The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…
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If the burden of two systems of measurement for common quantities…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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Three-Phase Alternator Let’s take the three-phase alternator…
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We have the symbols for depletion mode and enhancement mode MOSFETs -…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a common-emitter amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and learn about amplifier gain and feedback.
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
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Passive Devices Components incapable of controlling current by means…
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Define the following acronyms as they apply to digital logic circuits:…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a 7-segment binary-coded decimal (BCD) display and learn about active-low and active-high logic inputs.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.
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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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NAND and NOR gates possess a special property: they are universal.…
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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a coaxial cable.
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Pure resistive AC circuit: voltage and current are in phase. …
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