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  • Thumbnail for Overhead power line
    poles), concrete, and occasionally reinforced plastics. The bare wire conductors on the line are generally made of aluminum (either plain or reinforced with...
    36 KB (4,688 words) - 08:10, 12 July 2024
  • A single-wire transmission line (or single wire method) is a method of transmitting electrical power or signals using only a single electrical conductor...
    12 KB (1,770 words) - 07:39, 24 August 2023
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    A wire is a flexible, round, bar of metal. wires are commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire gauges come in various...
    21 KB (2,968 words) - 02:46, 9 September 2024
  • A wire chamber or multi-wire proportional chamber is a type of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional...
    12 KB (1,336 words) - 22:13, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guy-wire
    A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure...
    13 KB (1,701 words) - 00:18, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic coil
    turns of wire, the stronger the field produced. Conversely, a changing external magnetic flux induces a voltage in a conductor such as a wire, due to Faraday's...
    20 KB (2,464 words) - 18:45, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnet
    the magnetic field is produced by an electric current. Electromagnets usually consist of wire wound into a coil. A current through the wire creates a magnetic...
    50 KB (5,555 words) - 03:34, 17 July 2024
  • foil, copper wire, or a copper braid. This shield provides immunity to RF interference but does not provide immunity to magnetic fields. Some balanced...
    18 KB (2,252 words) - 18:03, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnetic field
    different sides of the wire, he was able to determine the field forms perfect circles around the wire.: 85  From the outside, the field of a dipole of magnetic...
    104 KB (12,959 words) - 07:52, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ampère's force law
    current-carrying wires (see first figure below) is often called Ampère's force law. The physical origin of this force is that each wire generates a magnetic field, following...
    17 KB (2,912 words) - 22:58, 6 October 2023
  • the missile, often using thin metal wires or a radio link, which causes it to steer back toward the center of the line-of-sight. Common examples of these...
    7 KB (1,086 words) - 11:03, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Three-phase electric power
    efficiency. A three-wire three-phase circuit is usually more economical than an equivalent two-wire single-phase circuit at the same line-to-ground voltage...
    55 KB (6,518 words) - 19:18, 10 September 2024
  • by a helical coil of wire whose length is substantially greater than its diameter, which generates a controlled magnetic field. The coil can produce...
    21 KB (2,997 words) - 12:08, 25 June 2024
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    Twin-lead (redirect from Ladder line)
    transmission line to carry radio frequency (RF) signals. It is constructed of two, stranded copper wires, or solid copper-clad steel wires. The wires are held...
    22 KB (3,068 words) - 02:20, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electric power transmission
    easement for cables is costly. Single-wire earth return (SWER) or single-wire ground return is a single-wire transmission line for supplying single-phase electrical...
    81 KB (9,790 words) - 20:09, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electrical discharge machining
    (EDM), also known as spark machining, spark eroding, die sinking, wire burning or wire erosion, is a metal fabrication process whereby a desired shape is...
    39 KB (5,272 words) - 09:12, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Single-wire earth return
    Single-wire earth return (SWER) or single-wire ground return is a single-wire transmission line which supplies single-phase electric power from an electrical...
    24 KB (2,926 words) - 10:41, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piano wire
    Piano wire, or "music wire", is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano strings but also in other applications as springs. It is made from tempered...
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  • Landline (redirect from Land line)
    A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also...
    15 KB (1,586 words) - 00:17, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wire (band)
    while Wire remained an occasional collaboration. It was not until 1999 that Wire again became a full-time entity. With Gotobed back in the line-up (now...
    34 KB (3,269 words) - 19:07, 1 September 2024
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