Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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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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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
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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.
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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Design a passive circuit that will create a "split” ( V/-V) power…
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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
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If I needed to describe the distance between two cities, I could…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an op amp voltage follower and learn about negative feedback in operational amplifier circuits.
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A calculator for computing the gain and output voltage of an operational amplifier
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Suppose we wished to measure the resistance of some component located…
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As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
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Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
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“Garbage in, garbage out.” —Anonymous SPICE…
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No text on electrical metering could be called complete without a…
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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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Insulated gate field-effect transistors are unipolar devices just like…
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A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable
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(“c” being a constant) RELATED…
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Introduction Whenever an electric voltage exists between two separated…
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A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
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