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Solar Sailing Through the Great Beyond
Far above us in the sky, spacecraft could soon be using solar sailing technology to…
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The Stressful Life of Smartphone Batteries
It is our fault as consumers that smartphone batteries go flat so soon. In the…
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The Caliber of Solar Splash Entrants
The success of any competition depends of the effort the participants put in. By this,…
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How the Rules of Solar Splash Work
Attention to detail is what really impresses at any Solar Splash intercollegiate competition, because the…
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The Solar Splash Collegiate Competition
Solar Splash is a freshwater solar power competition open to colleges. The goal is to…
Battery Basics
Electronic Switches & Relays, What They Do
A switch is a tap that controls the flow of current, preventing it, allowing it,…
Battery Basics
The Potentiometer, a Potent Little Fellow
The other electronic components we have been writing of transfer a set amount of current,…
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Fundamentals of Bipolar Transistors
There are two main types of transistors, which are in fact special cases of diodes.…
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The Single-Minded Determination of a Diode
When we wrote about resistors, we compared an electronic printed circuit board to a railway…
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Resistors as the Application of Ohm’s Law
The flow of electricity through any system is the product of three component types. These…