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DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

Single-phase Induction Motors

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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Reluctance Motor

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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Inductive Reactance

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Servo Motor Systems

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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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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.

Contactors

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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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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.

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

AC Lab - Induction Motor

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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.

Linear Computational Circuitry

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Torque Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert between units of torque

Rectifier Circuits

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

Inductive Reactance

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…

Stepper Motor Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor

Power Sources

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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…

Contact “Bounce”

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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…

What Is the Skin Effect?

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The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously…

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.

Digital Lab - Digital Combination Lock

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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.

Branch Current Method Analysis

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The most straightforward DC network analysis technique is the branch…

Asynchronous Counters

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In the previous section, we saw a circuit using one J-K flip-flop that…

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Performance-Based Assessments for Digital Circuit Competencies

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Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Resonant Filters

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So far, the filter designs we’ve concentrated on have employed…

Metric Prefix Conversions

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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…

Series DC Circuits Practice Worksheet with Answers

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In this circuit, three resistors receive the same amount of current (4…

The Exclusive-OR Function: The XOR Gate

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What Is an XOR Gate? One element conspicuously missing from the set of…

JFET Amplifiers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

DC Lab - Potentiometric Voltmeter

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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.

AC Capacitor Circuits

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Capacitors Vs. Resistors Capacitors do not behave the same as…

Design Project: LED Stroboscope

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A technician uses a stroboscope to “freeze” the rotation of a…

Other Diode Technologies

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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…

Analysis Techniques for Series Parallel Resistor Circuits

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Guidelines to Series-Parallel Combination Circuit Analysis The goal of…