This video provides a clear explanation of resistors and their role in electronic circuits. It covers the function of ...

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Andy recommends favorite resources for basic op amp circuits and includes a portion of TI's AN-20. Test your knowledge with our op amp quiz; answer explanations are included. By 1969, a fledgling ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Thirty-six years of coming to the Washington County Courthouse almost every day is finally enough for Circuit Judge John Threet. "I've been coming to the courthouse since 1989," Threet ...

A basic full-bridge inverter built to demonstrate the conversion of DC (battery) power into AC (alternating) power using electronic switches and the principles of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM).

TRIACs, devices derived from SCRs, offer advanced functionalities and greater versatility in both DC and AC applications. In the previous installment of the course, we explored “Silicon Controlled ...

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The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...