Recent content by AspiringEEngineer

As a preliminary note, most people flex about how dumb questions and then continue to school and scold curious minds. Instead of taking a demeaning approach I just ask for respectful insight to quench curiosity. I will 1) explain the experiment as I know it to be, 2) explain what I have been...

It is because I am not around any engineers, and I am taking calculus online through UMGC. Once I get back to the states, I plan to transfer to a different university with an engineering department. (I am looking at UMD or possibly Texas Tech. But, my goal is to get accepted into Georgia Tech...

The reason to use a capacitor is that an LC circuit requires one. The current has to be able to oscillate back and forth from an inductor, and it can using a capacitor. I wasn't expected to use 120V at first, but I found out my DC power supply will not work. There are no teachers or experts at...

I read the entire manual it came with and really enjoyed seeing a signal appear on screen just to calibrate the probes. Other than this I haven't done much because I'm afraid of ruining the internal components. I wanted to finish this super long tutorial on YouTube before I begin making simple...

Okay, so my project is to take Calculus I concepts and apply it to a real-world application (be it engineering, business, or any life experience that can include calculus). I have been researching and fascinated by wireless induction for quite some time, so I figured why not center the project...

Can I create my own non-polar cap then?

I bought this oscilloscope and I am hoping it was a good investment: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0771N1ZF9/?tag=pfamazon01-20 The only USB dongle (where a USB type-C branches to 3 connection ports: HDMI, another type-C, and a type-A) is the one I just pulled out of my laptop case...

How do I check to see if the capacitor is non-polar? It is from a Freenove electronics kit I have and it looks like this: I will have to use 120v then because this is the only power supply I have: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0852JZQZR/?tag=pfamazon01-20 I will just have to test it at 60hz from...

I plan to build the inductor myself, so I do not have a datasheet for it. I am going to create a 3D printed mold to wrap and compress the copper windings to form an inductor. Then I will make another mold with a different circumference to form another inductor. Both inductors would have the same...

I want to create an LC circuit with varying inductors and compare those inductors for efficiency. Would it be accurate to suggest measuring the area under the curve of the first cycle of the resonant frequency would determine which of the inductors are most efficient? If the area is greater...