Design
Project Assignments are found on the Handouts page.
Channel Blocker Project
History of Television and Other Background
- List of significant historical events in TV history
- Alan B. Dumont, RPI grad who built the first practical TV (check out the link to Rensselaer on this page for some very interesting info)
- Television History, the first 75 years
- DOCSIS Info from Brady Volpe (blog on contemporary cable systems)
Television Channel Frequencies
- DOCSIS Tutorial from Brady Volpe (includes general discussion of what each frequency band is used for in a modern cable system)
- DOCSIS.org
- FCC Frequency Allocation Chart (for air not cable)
- RPI Campus Channels 2008
- US CATV Frequencies Pt 1 Pt 2 from N2Prise.org
- TV Frequencies from CSGNetwork
- CATV Frequencies from W4ZT
- CATV Cable Attenuation and Channel Frequencies from Turnkey
- CATV, TV, FM Frequencies from the University of Hawaii Ham Club
- CATV Channel Frequencies from the American Radio Relay League
- CATV Channel Frequencies from Cable Addicts Broadband Lounge
Coaxial Cable Info
- CommScope F6TSV 75 Ohm Drop Cable (cable from T-W)
- Line Loss Calculator from Orchard City Amateur Radio Club
- Coax Specs from RF Cafe
- Understanding Coaxial Cable from InformIT
- Coaxial Cable from Wikipedia
- Choosing the Correct CCTV Cable from Howard University
- Coax Basics from Signal Engineering
- RF Cabling from Educypedia
- Coax Cable from ePanorama
- Coax Attenuation and Power Calculator from TIMES Microwave Systems
- Transmission Lines and Measurement of Their Characteristics
- To see how to obtain the resistance per unit length from the cable attenuation in dB/100m, check out the Microwaves101.com website. Look up:
Information on Channel Blocking
- Single Channel Elminiation Filter from Tinlee
- Channel Elimination Filters from Pico Macon
- Channel Deletion Filter from C&E (East Syracuse) also check out their available Literature
- Channel Elimination Filter Comparison from Multicom
- CATV Tunable Traps from Microwave Filter (East Syracuse)
- Single Channel Filter from Holland Electronics
- Foxblocker Cable Filter (Blocks Fox News) from Gizmodo
- Leviton Notch Filter from Smarthome
- TV Notch Filters Tutorial from Dewtronics (actually Donald Whisnant, a person with an interesting set of passions)
- CATV Traps/Filters from Eagle Comtronics (Liverpool)
- RF Assignments (blog)
Beakman's Motor Project
- Permanent Magnet's Flux Density for one type of magnet
- FEMM Model for typical Magnets: BeakmanMagnet.FEM and BeakmanMagnet_Plate.FEM
- Using the information from the FEMM models above to elucidate the Effect of the Steel Plate on the Magnetic Field
- Chris Palmer was one of the first to discuss this on the web.
- Science Buddies Building an Electric Motor
- Jose Pino's Beakman's Motor instructions (very good with nice pictures)
- Hila Science Camp motor project
- Science toys you can make with your kids, includes some excellent photos.
- SimpleMotor, a site dedicated to simple, inexpensive motors that are easy to build.
- Electric Motors fromthe IEEE (this is a ppt presentation)
- Motors from the Buffalo State Physics Education site
- Docstoc Building a Motor
- YouTube also has at least a couple of videos.
- Many, many, many more... just search for 'beakman's motor.'
Paperclip Launcher Project
