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I'm not sure. Sorry for being ignorant, but there was no "intro to EE" class before this lab course. So I'm learning as I go.

Yeah that is why I made the edit. Sorry, too much going on in my head right now. I had that problem first last night then the professor corrected me. Assuming my lab partner took the right reading for voltage on the resistor I have V = 7.25mV. Ip = Vp-p/2R = 244.9E-6 A

I thought that I was supposed to calculate the current? http://utdallas.edu/~dodge/EE1202/lab5.pdf Top of page 7. Not sure what I should be seeing across the resistor. I don't understand AC circuits that well. Since it is in series the voltage across the resistor and the inductor must equal the...

okay I found my mistake. this guy in my class keeps changing my ti-83's notation to eng from normal and i miss the E's half the time. I get what you get now (now being paying attention to the Es lol) So if the measured values look wrong should I go into the lab and remeasure? Okie doke, phase...

edit since there is no delete.

"Well, it depends upon what it is you're trying to calculate. Make a clear statement of what it is you're trying to determine. If it's the magnitude of the current flowing through the resistor, then Ip = Vp/R, or Ipp = Vpp/R, where both Vp and Vpp are measured across R." I'm assuming it's Ip...

Edited my post, I didn't mean "current voltage" I was typing "voltage lag current" but added a current in front of voltage. As for picking "p-p" or "p" it was just a type-o going to fix that too. "Also, if I go by the 5Vpp @1KHz source and the given component values, the magnitude of the...

Lol I'm not sure, but here it is: PS, this is an intro-lab if that wasn't obvious enough. lol

Homework Statement Time-domain expression for i(t), based on measures above: Time-domain expression for i(t), based on measured R and L: Vp-p on 16Ω resistor: 7.25mV "measured above" Ip-p for resistor: 0.676mA "measure above" Ip for resistor: .338mA "measured above" R: 14.8Ω L: 10.1mH...

Ah, that link helped quite a bit. I was trying to wrap my head around that. Also, I can't believe I didn't think of oil being used to break the arc by activating a mechanical device. Obviously I was not reading or thinking very critically this morning. But dang those breakers can get massive.

Considering we are way off topic now anyway this is a good time to ask: I was skimming over the breaker article on Wikipedia and I saw that it said something about using oil/gas (not natural gas obv) to break the arc. Doesn't that seem a bit insane. Aren't all oils flammable?

Thanks michael83 I subscribed to that guy. As for why do we need all those things its essentially to scale down the power from the grid to be appropriate for the motors right? I didn't know off hand the function of any of those objects (except the transformer).

While I don't know what all of it means the idea that your are creating something like that makes me extremely jealous! haha ------------------------------------------------------- And as for the maths things, I think it has to do with: Sciences - physics, chemistry, biology, etc Maths -...

Well, if it seems to be more about which field I want to specialize in I'm pretty sure that's going to be electronics or power engineering. Hopefully power engineering. Thanks for all the replies!

The uni I will attend is ranked like 50th or so. University of Texas at Dallas. Not bad considering it is only a satellite campus. Then again it was founded by the TI guys so there is a lot of expectations from the school I bet. The JuCo I am at now is nothing special, but I bet it's on par with...