This calculator gives the reactance and admittance of an inductor or the inductance given the reactance of an inductor
Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC magnetic fields using a simple wire coil and learn about AC signal coupling, orientation effects, and the impact of shielding using different materials.
By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
There’s a sure way to calculate any of the values in a reactive…
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
Inductors do not have a stable “resistance” as conductors…
If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…
Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, construct a signal generator circuit that creates two different types of ramp signals and learn how capacitors charge when connected to resistors and constant current sources.
Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp
In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
Identify which trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, or tangent) are…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.
Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as…
In electric circuits, the three basic quantities are voltage (E or V),…
Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according…
Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.
In this introduction to parallel resistance circuits, we will explain…
This calculator is designed to compute the parameters required to design a Pi-Match Impedance Circuit
A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Standing waves at the resonant frequency points of an open- or…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.
When plotted on a curve tracer, the characteristic curve for a normal…
So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
Label where each of the following electrical quantities would be found…
It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…
Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…
This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.
We know that the current in a series circuit may be calculated with…
In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
What are Simultaneous Equations and Systems of Equations? The terms…
