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Over recent years the Lithium Ion battery has become popular in applications requiring high power densities with small weight and footprint. Today Lithium...
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Maxwell's Equations are a set of fundamental relationships, which govern how electric and magnetic fields interact. The equations explain how these fields...
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I have been thinking recently that there appears to be less professional integrity around than when I first started my career in electrical engineering...
This article gives an introduction to IEEE 485 method for the selection and calculation of battery capacity.
Traditionally generation of electricity has involved rotating machines to produce alternating sinusoidal voltage and current (a.c. systems). With the development...
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