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Polyphase Power Systems

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Explain the difference between a balanced polyphase system and an…

Resistors

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Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…

Copper Wire Gauge Table

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Solid Cooper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…

Questions relating to project management

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Edge Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…

Microstrip Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

Meter Check of a Diode

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The Functionality of Diode Polarity Being able to determine the…

Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

Microstrip Wavelength Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.

Stripline Trace Width Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the trace width of a stripline based on the maximum current rating

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) theory

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

Mutual Inductance and Basic Operation

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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…

Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.

Creating Custom Calibration Resistances

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Often in the course of designing and building electrical meter…

Inductance

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∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! One of the fundamental principles of…

Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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Copper Wire Ampacity Table

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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline

Magnetic Fields and Inductance

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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…

Digital Lab - 3-bit Binary Counter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a 3-bit down counter using J-K flip-flops and learn about asynchronous counter functionality.

Sources of Electricity

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What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

Shift Registers

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

Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems

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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…

The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

Memory Devices

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

Non-Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

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This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp

Counters

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

Parallel Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

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

Voltmeter Design

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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…

Rules for Antiderivatives

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Constant Rule     Rule of Sums     Rule of…

Band-stop Filters

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How to Create a Band-stop Filter? Also called band-elimination,…

Convert MCD to Lumens

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This calculator is useful for calculating the luminous flux for LEDs where the angle is known.

Introduction to Combinational Logic Functions

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The term “combinational” comes to us from mathematics. In…

Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL)

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What Is Kirchhoff’s Current Law? Kirchhoff’s Current Law,…

Nonlinear Conduction

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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…

High-pass Filters

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A high-pass filter’s task is just the opposite of a low-pass…

Temperature Converter

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Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin

DC Motor Theory

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

AC Lab - Build a Transformer

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple transformer and learn some important transformer fundamentals including voltage step-up and step-down.

Combination Tubes

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Similar in thought to the idea of the integrated circuit, tube…

Properties of Exponents

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Product of Powers Property am an = am+n   Power of a Product…

Differential Equations

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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…

Zener Diodes

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

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Active-mode Operation (JFET)

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JFETs, like bipolar transistors, are able to “throttle”…

Si Lab - Half-wave Rectifier

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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a half-wave rectifier circuit using a silicon diode and learn about the differences between permanent magnet motor operation on AC vs. DC power.

Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

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

Logarithms for Analog Circuits

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The concept of a mathematical power is familiar to most students of…

Electric Shock Data

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

Mutual Inductance

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If two coils of wire are brought into close proximity with each other…

What is Norton’s Theorem and the Norton Equivalent Circuit?

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This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…

Switches

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What is the purpose of the switch shown in this schematic diagram?

Parallel Circuit Rules

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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…

Op-amp Circuits

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

Circuit Simplification Examples

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

An Analogy for Ohm’s Law

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Ohm’s Law also makes intuitive sense if you apply it to the…

Network Topology

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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…

Converting Truth Tables into Boolean Expressions

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In designing digital circuits, the designer often begins with a truth…