The most basic building block of these systems is the electric wire, and SWNTs with diameters of an order of a nanometer can be excellent conductors.

The dimension of a physical quantity is the combination of the basic physical dimensions ( usually mass, length, time, electric charge, and temperature ) which describe it ; for example, speed has the dimension length per time, and may be measured in meters per second, miles per hour, or other units.

A basic electric circuit.

The conventional SI system of units is based on seven basic dimensional quantities, namely distance, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.

Neon played a role in the basic understanding of the nature of atoms in 1913, when J. J. Thomson, as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays, channeled streams of neon ions through a magnetic and an electric field and measured their deflection by placing a photographic plate in their path.

Now all but the smallest, most basic yachts have electric lighting, radio, and navigation aids such as Global Positioning Systems.

Such basic appliances as washing machines, clothes dryers, furnaces, exercise machines, refrigerators, freezers, electric stoves, and vacuum cleaners all became popular from the 1920s through the 1950s.

The basic invention involves passing an electric current through a bath of alumina dissolved in cryolite, which results in a puddle of aluminum forming in the bottom of the retort.

At its most basic there is a stand-alone electric lock.

The scarcity of spare parts and the need to carry out repairs quickly resulted in the popularity of vehicles with the bare minimum of electric and hydraulic systems, such as the basic versions of the Land Rover, Jeep Wrangler, and Toyota Land Cruiser.

The hot metal is then charged into a steelmaking vessel to produce steel, typically with an electric arc furnace, induction furnace or basic oxygen furnace, by burning off the excess carbon in a controlled fashion and adjusting the alloy composition.

A more basic and general definition starts from the fact that if there is electric field inside a material, it will cause electric current to flow.

Industrial rock artists generally employ the basic rock instrumentation of electric guitars, drums and bass and pair it with white noise blasts and electronic music gear ( synthesizers, sequencers, samplers and drum machines ).

" Meanwhile, on 8 and 9 December, another basic track was recorded, using a Mellotron, electric guitar, piano, backwards-recorded cymbals, and the swarmandel ( or swordmandel ), an Indian version of the zither.

The basic principles are measurements from / to electric beacons, especially

Dancehall is essentially speechifying with musical accompaniment, including a basic drum beat ( most often played on electric drums ).

The basic calculating units had to be synchronized mechanically, so they were run by a 50-foot (~ 15. 5 m ) shaft driven by a five-horsepower ( 4 kW ) electric motor.

Researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them.

These, with drums, electric bass and occasional use of saxophone form the basic instrumentation of iskelmä.

The basic reason an EM field changes in character with distance from its source, is that Maxwell's equations prescribe different behaviors for each of the two source-terms of electric fields and also the two source-terms for magnetic fields.

Today the main application for valves is audio amplifiers for high-end hi-fi and musical performance use with electric guitars, electric basses, and Hammond organs, although these applications have different requirements regarding distortion which result in different design compromises, although the same basic design techniques are generic and widely applicable to all broadband amplification applications, not only audio.

The lower body has many ways to move around from basic walking and stepping to the more complex and gravity defying styles of floating and electric boogaloo.

Although most electrical engineers will understand basic circuit theory ( that is the interactions of elements such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors and inductors in a circuit ), the theories employed by engineers generally depend upon the work they do.

Ohm's law is a basic law of circuit theory, stating that the current passing through a resistance is directly proportional to the potential difference across it.

The " Musical Telegraph " was a chance by-product of his telephone technology when Gray accidentally discovered that he could control sound from a self-vibrating electromagnetic circuit and so invented a basic oscillator.

* Armstrong oscillator — basic circuit for reception of AM radio signals

A basic circuit is designed, often with the help of circuit modeling ( on a computer ).

DEC openly published the basic Unibus specifications, even offering prototyping bus interface circuit boards, and encouraging customers to develop their own Unibus-compatible hardware.

The ideal model not only neglects basic physics factors in terms of primary current required to establish a magnetic field in the core and the contribution to the field due to current in the secondary circuit but also assumes a core of negligible reluctance with two windings of zero resistance.

* In April 2008, researchers at HP Labs announced the creation of a working memristor: a fourth basic passive circuit element whose existence had previously only been theorized.

Since the basic indicator system in either an analog or digital meter responds to DC only, a multimeter includes an AC to DC conversion circuit for making alternating current measurements.

In a basic analog multimeter the current to deflect the coil and pointer is drawn from the circuit being measured ; it is usually an advantage to minimize the current drawn from the circuit.

The basic unit of the T-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 kbit / s, and is commonly used for one voice circuit.

** Hal Feeney project engineer did the detailed logic design, circuit design, and physical layout under Faggin's supervision, employing the same design methodology that Faggin had originally developed for the Intel 4004 microprocessor, and utilizing the basic circuits he had developed for the 4004.

Monocrystalline silicon grown by the Czochralski process is the basic material in the production of the large-scale integrated circuit chips used in computers, TVs, cell phones and electronic equipment of all kinds.

However, transformer, capacitance and inductance are normally retained in analysis because they are the ideal properties of the basic physical components transformer, inductor and capacitor whereas a practical gyrator must be constructed as an active circuit.

Motorola ECL 10, 000 basic gate circuit diagram

Following are brief descriptions of the basic elements of flex circuit construction and their functions.

The following items are used for basic measurement of voltages, currents, and components in the circuit under test.

There are three basic, linear passive lumped analog circuit components: the resistor ( R ), the capacitor ( C ), and the inductor ( L ).

The basic moving coil voltmeter and ammeter itself takes a small current and thus loads the circuit to which it is attached.

Based on his participation in the basic circuit design, definition, and system design of the Motorola 6800 microprocessor and supporting computer chips, Mensch is a co-holder of several 6800 family patents, including the 6800 CPU, 6820 / 21 PIA, 6850 ACIA, and 6860 modem chip.