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Servo Motor Systems

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

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

DC Motor Theory

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

AC Commutator Motors

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

AC Motor Theory

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

DC Generator Theory

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

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

Reluctance Motor

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

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Boolean Algebra

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

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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

AC Motor Theory

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

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

AC Commutator Motors

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

Polyphase Motor Design

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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

Motor Control Circuits

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

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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

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…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Magnetism

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A permanent magnet is a device that retains a magnetic field without…

Troubleshooting Series and Parallel Circuits

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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…

TTL NOR and OR gates

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TTL Circuit Analysis Let’s examine the following TTL circuit and…

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

AC Lab - Noise Cancellation

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an AC voltage source connected to speakers to learn about sound waves and the foundational principle used in noise cancelling headphones.

Op-Amp Data

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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…

RMS Voltage Calculator

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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.

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will create a battery from a potato (yes! a potato) and learn about the relationship between chemical energy and electric energy.

Electric Shock Data

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The table of electric currents and their various bodily effects was…

Circuit Simplification Examples

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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…

Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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Using the same value components in our series example circuit, we will…

Frequency and Phase Measurement

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An important electrical quantity with no equivalent in DC circuits is…

Decimal versus Binary Numeration

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Let’s count from zero to twenty using four different kinds of…

Junction Field-effect Transistors

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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…

Wire Loop Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.

Si Lab - JFET Current Regulator

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) current regulator and learn some of the advantages of JFETs over BJTs for current regulation.

Broadside Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.

Digital Codes

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.

Wire Self Inductance Calculator

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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.