Life without electricity is something that is no longer imaginable. Whether it be a smartphone, hair-dryer or a ceiling lamp—the technical accomplishments we hold dear all require electricity.

Scientists from St Petersburg University and the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS), together with Professor Leon Chua from the ...

The Scheckels’ hands-on session was designed for teachers who were searching for ideas to teach basic electricity and simple electrical circuits. Participants hooked up a simple circuit with battery, ...

Providing power via contact-closure circuits historically required a new third wire, but perhaps no longer. Say the words “solid-state relay” (SSR) and most engineers also naturally think of two ...

Bimetals are widely used as a thermal tripping mechanism inside the miniature circuit breakers (MCBs) products when an overload current passes through the circuit for a certain period. Experimental, ...

The topic of electricity often poses difficulties for many secondary school students in physics lessons. Researchers have now developed and empirically evaluated a new, intuitive curriculum as part of ...