This post is quick introduction and overview to different railway electrification voltages used in answer to a question sent in via email. While there...

Gauss's Electrical law defines the relation between charge ("Positive" & "Negative") and electric field.  The law was initially formulated by Carl Friedrich...

Power factor is the ratio between the real power (P in kW) and apparent power (S in kVA) drawn by an electrical load. The reactive power (Q in kVAr)...

Just added a page to the tools, which will allow you to calculate the synchronous speed, slip and rated torque for an induction motor. Not a particularly...

This article gives an introduction to IEEE 485 method for the selection and calculation of battery capacity.

Everything physical in electrical engineering from insulations to conductors revolves around materials. Here we are listing common materials along with...

Modelica is an open source (free) software language for modelling complex systems. Having never used it before, I thought I would download a development...

GE have put together a time-lapse video shown flight take-off and landings at some airports. An interesting view:

We have a sister note to this (Robots - Interesting Video), in which I have posted some videos of interesting robots developed by commercial corporations...

Many medium voltage (MV) indoor switchgear rooms  exist worldwide. The complexity of these rooms varies considerably depending on location, function and...