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Sources of Electricity

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

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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When calculating the power dissipation of resistive components, we can…

AC Power

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If a sinusoidal voltage is applied to an impedance with a phase angle…

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

AC Lab - Using a Transformer to Build a 12 VAC Power Supply

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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.

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

Power Sources

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There are many different types of power sources, and here some of the…

Electrical Energy Calculator

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This calculator will determine the instantaneous energy, sustained energy, and power consumed by an electrical system given two of the three electrical parameters (voltage, current, or resistance) and the time.

Regulated Power Sources

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

Voltage, Current, and Resistance

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Voltage is commonly defined as “electrical pressure.” The unit of…

Sources of Electricity

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

Special-purpose Diodes

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Schottky diodes Schottky diodes are constructed of a metal-to-N…

Lenz’s Law and Faraday’s Law Calculator

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This calculator uses Faraday's and Lenz's laws to calculate the magnitude and polarity of the induced electromotive force (EMF) caused by a change in magnetic flux through a closed-loop coil.

Energy, Work, and Power

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Ohm’s Law Practice Worksheet With Answers

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Define the following terms: energy, work, and power.

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Rectifier Circuits

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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…

Thyristors

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Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…

Voltage/Current Converter OpAmp Circuits

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

DC Lab - Potato Battery

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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.

AC Waveforms

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Radio waves are comprised of oscillating electric and magnetic fields,…

Hand Calculator Use

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To enter numbers in scientific notation into a hand calculator, there…

Demultiplexers

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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…

Contributors (7)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Derivatives of Power Functions of e

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Example Derivatives of e Proportionality Constant When we say that a…

Design Project: Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Signal Generator

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What shape of voltage waveform would you expect to measure (using an…

Full-Adder

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The half-adder is extremely useful until you want to add more than one…

Feedback

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If some percentage of an amplifier’s output signal is connected…

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Contributors (9)

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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

Voltmeter Design

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As was stated earlier, most meter movements are sensitive devices.…

Logic Simplification With Karnaugh Maps

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The logic simplification examples that we have done so far could have…

AC Network Analysis

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