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Sources of Electricity

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

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.

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…

Design Project: Power Inverter

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

Regulated Power Sources

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

AC Power

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

How to Calculate Power in a Series and Parallel Circuit

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

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.

Power Sources

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

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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

Energy, Work, and Power

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

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.

Rules for Limits

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    RELATED WORKSHEETS: Calculus for Electric Circuits…

Convert MCD to Lumens

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

Transistor Biasing Calculations

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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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

N-Way Power Divider Calculator

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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.

Network Topology

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

Specific Resistance

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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…

TTL NAND and AND gates

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Suppose we altered our basic open-collector inverter circuit, adding a…

IGFET Amplifiers

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

Likely Failures in Proven Systems

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The following problems are arranged in order from most likely to least…

Meter Check of a Transistor (BJT)

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Bipolar transistors are constructed of a three-layer semiconductor…

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

Edge-triggered Latches: Flip-Flops

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So far, we’ve studied both S-R and D latch circuits with enable…

Millman’s Theorem

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

Superposition Theorem

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

AC Metrology

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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…

Electrical Noise and Interference

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Define what noise means, in the electrical sense of the word. How does…

Decibel Calculator

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This calculator will convert voltage or power gains into decibels. Enter one of the three values and the calculator will output the other two.

Review of R, X, and Z (Resistance, Reactance and Impedance)

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Before we begin to explore the effects of resistors, inductors, and…

Parallel R, L, and C

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We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…