If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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.
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…
After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.
A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A tool designed to convert between units of torque
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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.
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…
When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…
The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…
This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…
In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…
Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…
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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…
To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…
What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a null-balancing potentiometric voltmeter and learn how to prevent a voltmeter from changing the voltage it is measuring.
Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…
A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…
Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…