Sentences with phrase «alternating current in»

An alternating current in the transmitter coil generates a magnetic field which induces a voltage in the receiver coil.

An inverter converts the stored direct current into alternating current in order to drive the electric motor.

In addition, the electrical contacts industry, which now uses alternating current in devices, might finally be able to turn to direct current devices as higher performance alternatives.

They turned on an alternating current in the coil, creating an alternating magnetic field.

Not exact matches

These sorts of clocks keep time by counting the number of oscillations in the alternating current they receive, which also powers them; in other words, the number of times the flow of electricity changes directions every second.

SolarCity (SCTY) CTO Peter Rive told me at the event that the company will charge customers $ 5,000 for the 10 kWh unit, a price that includes installation and an inverter to convert direct current power to alternating current for use in the home.

The costs don't include installation or the inverter that converts direct current power to alternating current for use in the home.

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

A type of power inverter, the small, shiny box doesn't produce power itself, but instead changes direct current to alternating current, an essential process in electric car technology that lets battery power spin the car's motor.

(EIA reports installed electric capacity data in alternating current terms, which are typically 10 % to 30 % lower than the direct current capacities sometimes reported for PV systems.)

It is because of their lack of such alternate grounding that most of the current efforts in «value analysis» and «moral development» seem so frail.

Never too shy to sing the praises of the virtues of the Idaho Potato, the IPC views the current diet environment as a key opportunity to get out in front of the news with an alternate and balanced position.

This rapid - freezing system uses both alternating and direct current, high «electric potential,» at the same time to rapidly cool the product without oxidization, reducing the size of ice crystals that form in food cells.

The bad news is that I'm coughing regularly and probably starting the chest cold that has had my wife in bed all weekend (and, no, in her current condition she is NOT hot...) Airborne zinc lozenges, and vitamin C are already on board and will alternate with the brewskis for at least the next several couple of days (then back to work on Wednesday, I hope...) My favorite line from Animal House is definitely in order...

Either player would represent different options for us up front and perhaps, here's hoping, mean that we could alternate our formation and tactics based on the current state of play in games.

The current system already allows for alternates in its own way.

Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.

An inverter converts direct current (DC) electricity into the alternating current (AC) used by the lights, appliances and devices in a home.

Stone stepped down from JPL in 2001, but his touch remains in the current cadence of Mars exploration, alternating between big - budget missions like Curiosity and smaller ones like the MAVEN orbiter, which studies the Martian atmosphere.

The Eastern, Western, and Texas grids all carry alternating current, or AC, that jiggles back and forth in the wires 60 times a second.

In addition to applying direct current to the scalp, brain - hacking researchers and DIYers are experimenting with other methods including alternating current and random noise stimulation.

When it flies into the magnetic field an alternating current (AC) voltage is induced in the receiving antenna and the drone's electronics convert it efficiently into a direct current (DC) voltage to power it.

But applying a short 1 hertz alternating current to the solution set it going in a realistic way — without the need for any extra power — for up to an hour.

Further, he found the signature memristor effect: When he reversed the flow of electricity, as in an alternating current, the efficiency of the conductance increased, as if the microtubule had remembered the current that previously passed through it.

It is more efficient to transmit electricity over long distances in the form of DC, rather than alternating current.

When a metal is in the presence of alternating magnetic fields (AMFs), electrical currents are produced on the metal, which generate heat.

Changes in the atoms» spin rate correspond to an oscillation in the DC magnetic fields, creating alternating current (AC) electronic signals, or voltages at the light detector, which are more useful for communications.

Together with colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology and the company Borealis in Sweden, he has found a powerful method for reducing energy losses in alternating current cables.

The researchers will also test the method in high - voltage cables for direct current, since direct current is more efficient than alternating current for power transmission over very long distances.

These could include new measures to extend plant protection when outside and backup alternating current power and new instrumentation to monitor conditions in spent fuel pools in emergencies.

«Linearly polarized light means an alternating current electric field that is always oscillating in one direction,» Kono said.

The antenna of the crystal radio converts these waves to alternating current (shown in A).

NYC Neuromodulation 2017 will focus on technologies and mechanism for advanced brain stimulation in areas that include transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), high - definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD - tDCS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and other emerging areas.

The switch would consist of a plasma - filled tube that turns current on and off in systems that convert the direct current coming from long - distance power lines to the alternating current that lights homes and businesses; such systems are used to reverse the process as well.

There's the reproductive years then everything goes crazy and perimenopause which is puberty in reverse and then there's menopause where you have just a direct current instead of an alternating current.

Told in chapters alternating between Rachel in current time and Megan last year, I'm having trouble putting this one down.

The gold standard for this sort of true - life journalistic muckraker is, of course, «All the President's Men,» a movie that took place in the»70s, was made in the»70s, and tapped the alternating current of corruption and idealism that helped define the»70s.

Set in the late 1880s, the story follows the battle between Edison and Westinghouse to supply electricity, with Edison backing direct current and Westinghouse pushing alternating current.

The writing - directing team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore work in alternating currents of coincidence and crisis.

It will be based on DC's Flashpoint comic book crossover series from 2011 - written by current DC Films co-chief Geoff Johns - which follows Flash as he travels back in time and prevents the Reverse - Flash from murdering his mother, thus sending the entire DC Universe into an alternate timeline, known as Flashpoint, in which the Amazons and Atlanteans are at war, Kal - El never became Superman, and Thomas Wayne was Batman, amongst other things.

Ignoring that, is it any way realistic in the current economic climate, even in a bio-domed, alternate - comedic world — that a company's power brokers have this much time to devote to fiddlesticks fucking around?

Because of the whole Star Wars Legends alternate universe (the classic Expanded Universe) and the current canon universe, there's some move for changes to be made in the movie and not to play spoiler, they change it up from the previous novels.

This electricity can be converted to alternating current (AC) power for use in the building or if more power is generated, the surplus will be exported to the National Grid.

Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»

Would also eliminate the «highly qualified teacher» requirement in current law and support teachers entering the classroom through alternate routes.

Interestingly, the hardware that transforms the electricity from alternating current to direct current is the same as what's carried in the car for 120 - and 240 - volt charging.

When an alternating current is applied to it, the crystals in the plastic membrane are arranged in such a way that the glass becomes transparent and allows daylight into the rear of the Maybach 62 models over its entire area.

In Germany, where a different charger is needed due to single - phase alternating current, the Smart electric drive can be charged 40 % faster than before at a household socket.

The power electronics control the flow of high - voltage power between the motors and the battery, converting direct current (DC) stored in the battery into alternating current (AC).

The V12 engine is controlled by an innovative alternating current ignition system and also boasts advanced ion flow sensing used in this engine for the first time worldwide.