A: Yes, Jupiter’s illumination occasionally dips below 100 percent, although the giant planet never appears less than 99 percent lit. Unfortunately, this phase effect is hardly noticeable through ...

Have you ever wondered what makes a loudspeaker “difficult to drive”? Do you wonder what’s so special about an amplifier that is stable into a 4 ohm load? If these are the kinds of questions that ...

Like any big industry, the automotive business has several dumpsters filled with products and ideas that should have remained conceptual. From modern climate controls buried within successive ...

“Two halves make a whole” is a very old and often true maxim. For example, it’s almost always true when said about AC phase angle power control. You rarely want significant alternating half-cycle ...

A phase vector or phasor in physics and engineering signifies a sine wave whose amplitude and frequency are time-variant. The behavior of a sinusoid is decomposed by phasors into three independent ...