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This week it’s measuring a test signal and probing Alternating Current. Hey, measuring signals is what oscilloscopes are all about, right? My very first measurement was, of course, the ...

Musical artist AY Young powered his tour with solar energy and shares how you can harness the sun’s power to fuel your next ...

A significant portion of the electricity in charging stations goes to waste when an electric car is plugged in to charge. Volvo's electric cars are among the worst offenders, a new study shows.

The physicist Roger Penrose suggested that, if an object fell into a rotating black hole in such a way that it split – with ...

Addressing challenges hindering EV adoption, including charging infrastructure and charging options, will be critical to ...

For one, it acted like a rectifier, able to turn alternating current into direct current. Two, it switched on and off when a specific amount of voltage -- known as the breakover voltage -- was ...

To ensure that the minimum amount of power is lost from the cables: the cables are thick so that their resistance is low high voltages are used to reduce the current through the transmission lines ...

An explanation of the difference between direct and alternating current. The clip includes a short historical outline of the work of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. This is followed by an ...

A research team has discovered significant nonlinear Hall and wireless rectification effects at room temperature in elemental semiconductor tellurium (Te). Their research is published in Nature ...