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.
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A modern method of electrical power control involves inserting a…
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As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…
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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
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Capacitors store energy in the form of an electric field, and…
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Identify each of these logic gates by name, and complete their…
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A transmission line of infinite length is an interesting abstraction,…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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The final transistor amplifier configuration (Figure below) we need to…
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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
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So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we…
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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.
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Logic circuits, whether comprised of electromechanical relays or…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a voltage follower amplifier using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in common-collector configuration and learn about circuit ground and impedance transformations.
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As we saw earlier, a power system with no secure connection to earth…
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Critical temperatures given in Kelvins Material Element/Alloy Critical…
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Suppose a 12 volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 20…
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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
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Project Overview This project employs all of the skills…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a symmetric stripline.
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What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…
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Capacitance Formula Permittivity of Dielectric …
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Input Voltages for Logic Gates Logic gate circuits are designed to…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
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A handy all-in-one tool for reading resistor color code values for a 4 band resistor, 5 band resistor, or 6 band resistor.
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A voltage multiplier is a specialized rectifier circuit producing…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…
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This calculator determines the resistance of a microstrip trace
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The time constant of a series RC circuit is the product of the resistance and capacitance. Given two of the three values—resistance, capacitance, or RC time constant—this tool will calculate the missing third variable.
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Thyristors are a class of semiconductor components exhibiting…
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Generally speaking, how many “time constants” worth of time does…
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The Law of Sines (for any triangle) The Law of Cosines (for any…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is called…
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With addition being easily accomplished, we can perform the operation…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build and test an automated circuit that sequentially flashes 10 LED, and learn about counters, frequency dividers, and switch debouncing.
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
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You may have wondered where we got that strange equation for the…
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Though mechanical ohmmeter (resistance meter) designs are rarely used…
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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…
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When using conventional current flow, we can trace the direction of…
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A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electronic component that…
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
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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.
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