Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries One NPN…
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Learning Objectives Rheostat use Wiring a potentiometer as a rheostat…
Seebeck Effect An interesting phenomenon applied in the field of…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One N-channel junction field-effect transistor,…
PARTS AND MATERIALS High-quality “closed-cup” audio…
Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Two 6-volt batteries Two NPN…
Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
Centuries ago, it was discovered that certain types of mineral rock…
If a strip of conductive metal is stretched, it will become skinnier…
It is very important to keep in mind that the “normal”…
Differential Op-Amp Circuits An op-amp with no feedback is already a…
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
PARTS AND MATERIALS 6-volt battery Electromagnet made from experiment…
Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
In many circuit applications, we encounter components connected…
PARTS AND MATERIALS Paper tube, from a toilet-paper roll Bar of iron…
This calculator calculates the free space loss, given the distance, frequency, and gain, between two antennas.
Synchronous motors load the power line with a leading power factor.…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…
Let’s connect three AC voltage sources in series and use complex…
What will happen to the brightness of the light bulb as the iron core…
A mathematician named DeMorgan developed a pair of important rules…
While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
PARTS AND MATERIALS High-quality “closed-cup” audio…
In the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are…
This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
What is the difference between a JMP (“jump”) instruction and a…
Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4017 decade counter/divider (Radio Shack catalog…
