A sliding-stem valve body is one where the moving parts slide with a linear motion. Some examples of…
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Stoichiometry is the accounting of atoms before and after a chemical reaction. It is an expression of the Law…
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The three “elementary” particles of matter comprising all atoms are electrons, protons, and…
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Suppose we wished to measure the consumption of propane over time for a large propane storage tank supplying a…
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Modern DC and AC motor drives provide features useful when using electric motors as final control elements.…
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Imagine a major marathon race, where hundreds of runners gather in one place to compete. When the starting gun…
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Programmable logic controllers are essentially nothing more than special-purpose, industrial computers. As…
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Classical mechanics (often called Newtonian mechanics in honor of Isaac Newton) deal with forces and motions…
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Any conductor possesses a characteristic called inductance: the ability to store energy in the form of a…
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The fundamental principle of electromagnetism is that an electric current will create a magnetic field at…
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A limit switch detects the physical motion of an object by direct contact with that object. An example of a…
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Those familiar with industrial instrumentation will find much within the electric power industry remarkably…
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Learning is not merely a process of information transfer. It is first and foremost a transformation of…
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Many liquid substances undergo a process whereby their constituent molecules split into positively and…
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When I began teaching full-time in 1998, most of what I thought I understood about good teaching was actually…
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The vast majority of PID controllers in service today are digital in nature. Microprocessors executing PID…
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In the United States, the most common language used to program PLCs is Ladder Diagram (LD), also known as…
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In the United States, the ANSI and IEEE organizations have standardized a set of numerical codes referring to…
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Temperature measurement devices may be classified into two broad types: contact and non-contact. Contact-type…
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Tube, like pipe, is a hollow structure designed to provide an enclosed pathway for fluids to flow. In the case…
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