Description: In this lab, students use different coils to investigate how transformers step voltage up and down, and make simple half-wave rectifiers.
Writeup: the transformers writeup
[There is also a cool demo that can be done with the coils.]
Useful java applet: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/transformer/
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