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- ...people of both the towns are there to represent a key point in electrical circuits: Ohm Law. What basically Ohms law says is that if the resistance is higher, ...3 KB (507 words) - 08:50, 5 June 2007
- = Power in electric circuits = understand just what power is before we analyze it in any circuits. ...3 KB (602 words) - 08:29, 28 June 2006
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- ...h it. In fact, it is this energy which enables the charge to travel, as an electric current, at all. Voltage is defined as energy per. unit charge, ie. Electrical power sources (such as batteries) 'push' an electric current around a circuit. To do this, they have to exert a force on the ele ...2 KB (416 words) - 16:12, 2 January 2008
- == Electric Charge (Coulombs) == ...and Gauss' Law. However, Charge is not important for the study of electric circuits, and so this wikibook will not make much use of it after this. ...3 KB (476 words) - 01:38, 9 June 2007
- = Power in electric circuits = understand just what power is before we analyze it in any circuits. ...3 KB (602 words) - 08:29, 28 June 2006
- ...ectric current. Resistance is a measure of how well an artefact resists an electric current. ==In Series Circuits== ...4 KB (664 words) - 11:45, 3 January 2008
- ==Why analogs to circuits?== ...pedance and Mobility analogies that compare mechanical systems to electric circuits. ...3 KB (506 words) - 14:35, 8 March 2007
- == Analog Circuits == A resistor is a device that slows down the flow of electric current. We have already seen Ohm's law before, but we will repeat it here: ...5 KB (832 words) - 15:01, 17 August 2007
- {{SideBox|For more information about electric circuits and circuit elements, see the following books:<br>'''[[Circuit Theory]]<br> ...1 KB (151 words) - 14:18, 14 February 2007
- ...e Force''' - The quantity of magnetic field force, or "push." Analogous to electric voltage (electromotive force). ...quantity of total field effect, or "substance" of the field. Analogous to electric current. ...4 KB (667 words) - 19:37, 4 January 2007
- [[Category:Electric Circuits]] ...1 KB (155 words) - 18:25, 13 December 2006
- ...is a simple and powerful mathematical tool for helping us analyze electric circuits, but it has limitations, and we must understand these limitations in order to properly apply it to real circuits. For most conductors, resistance is a rather stable ...3 KB (534 words) - 08:29, 28 June 2006
- ...urce''', and we will explain how to use these conceptual tools for solving circuits. We have just shown turns out that the Thévenin and Norton circuits are just different representations of the same black box circuit, with the ...7 KB (1,126 words) - 16:51, 8 December 2007
- ==Other astable circuits== [[Category:Electric Circuits]] ...4 KB (692 words) - 20:48, 4 January 2007
- == Circuits == '''Circuits''' (also known as "networks") are collections of circuit elements and wires ...10 KB (1,590 words) - 22:33, 10 January 2008
- With the advent of AC power, analysis of circuits has become a much more complicated task that requires a whole set of new an ...r phase angle then the voltage, it is said to '''lead''' the voltage. Many circuits can be classified and examined using lag and lead ideas. ...6 KB (1,105 words) - 02:12, 9 June 2007
- ..., the tendency for the charges to attract increase, thereby increasing the electric field generated. ...necessary measures to counteract it is a big deal in engineering electric circuits. ...10 KB (1,766 words) - 00:26, 30 December 2006
- * ''Resistance'' is the measure of opposition to electric current. ...c circuit offering little or no resistance to the flow of electrons. Short circuits are dangerous with high voltage power sources because the high currents enc ...5 KB (840 words) - 00:20, 29 August 2007
- Voltage is a potential in an electric field between two charges. A voltage drop is a change in potential. Volt It is sometimes taught that current in electric circuits is composed of electrons, which flow from the negative terminal of the powe ...6 KB (1,020 words) - 07:01, 25 February 2007
- #:For arbitrary constants ''A'' and ''B''. Critically damped circuits typically have low overshoot, no oscillations, and quick settling time. #:Overdamped circuits are characterized as having a very large settling time, and possibly a larg ...10 KB (1,564 words) - 23:53, 10 February 2008
- == 4. Make and run a simple electric motor from a kit or take apart a motor and identify the parts, and explain A rotary switch called a commutator reverses the direction of the electric current twice every cycle, to flow through the armature so that the poles o ...10 KB (1,731 words) - 20:16, 4 October 2007
- ...k into the circuit under certain conditions. Capacitors store energy in an electric field, while inductors store energy in a magnetic field. ...assive circuit elements that can be used to store energy in the form of an electric field. In the simplest case, a capacitor is a set of parallel metal plates ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 17:47, 23 July 2007