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    Ankita Katdare

    Ankita Katdare

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    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    WolframAlpha is a freely available computational engine that can supplement already existing software such as mathematica, maple, mathlab, or excel. The purpose of this mini-guide is to go over some of its functionality with emphasis on electrical engineering.
    Dimensional analysis:

    WolframAlpha recognizes many common units. It will simplify dimensions and scale units. For example,

    Code: farad * henry
    will generate [time]^2

    Code: 0.01 uF to pF
    will generate 10,000 pF or 10 nF

    WolframAlpha also can tap its database to pull up a conversion formula from the context

    Code: convert 25 MHz to meters
    will convert the frequency to wavelength 12 meters

    Code: find energy in 100 uF at 10 KV
    will give energy in a capacitor,

    or to find inductance to resonate with 10 nF capacitor at 100 Khz; just say that

    Code: find inductance for 10 nF at 100 KHz
    output 253 nH

    Also if you haven't memorized resistor color bands already, you can still look them up

    Code: resistor yellow purple red
    output: 4.7K
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  • Ankita Katdare

    AdministratorJun 4, 2012

    Complex numbers and phasors:

    Working in polar form is supported in W|A. By typing an impedance in rectangular form

    30 + 45i
    we are quickly given its magnitude and phase of 54, and 56 degrees

    and likewise, we can indicate a phasor in polar form with an exponential e

    e^(i pi)
    generates -1

    we can also manipulate phasors algebraically

    100 e^(i 45 deg) + 25 e^(i 30 deg)
    output: magnitude = 124, phase = 42 deg

    indicate degrees with “deg” otherwise W|A will interpret it in radians.
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