Fundamental Principles Of Electric And Magnetic Circuits

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Excerpt from Fundamental Principles of Electric and Magnetic Circuits This book has been written as an introduction to the study of electric power machinery and transmission. The material contained in it is what the author considers to be the vital fundamental principles. It is intended for undergraduate students and therefore does not go as deeply into the physical and mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism as would be required for graduate study, nor does it include all the possible variations in conditions which might affect the application of the principles as laid down. These may be brought out in discussion and the student taught to think out some of them for himself. The author desires to thank Professors F. D. Paine and F. H. McClain for valuable suggestions in the preparation of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Electric and Magnetic Circuits Electrical Engineering, deals with the fundamental principles of Electricity and Magnetism, and explains fully all the essential relationships of Electric and Magnetic Circuits met with in continuous current working, and it is hoped that the subjects of generation, transmission, distribution and application of electrical energy may receive full and adequate treatment in the succeeding volumes without requiring so much introductory matter, devoted to Electrical Engineering principles, terms and definitions, as is customary in many of the standard technical treatises. Furthermore, the experience of the author leads him to the conclusion that but few engineers are able to take full advantage of the classical works with which electrical literature abounds, simply and solely because they have not mastered thoroughly the elements of the Arithmetic of Electrical Engineering. The cultivation of the power and ability to calculate readily and accurately is just as important as the cultivation of the ability to do practical work; and to emphasize this fact the opinions of two eminent electrical engineers and educational authorities may be quoted. Twenty years ago Lord Kelvin made the following statement at a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers: In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and explain it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind More recently, Professor Ayrton, F.E.S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Electric power engineering has always been an integral part of electrical engineering education. Providing a unique alternative to existing books on the market, this text presents a concise and rigorous exposition of the main fundamentals of electric power engineering. Contained in a single volume, the materials can be used to teach three separate courses — electrical machines, power systems and power electronics, which are in the mainstream of the electrical engineering curriculum of most universities worldwide. The book also highlights an in-depth review of electric and magnetic circuit theory with emphasis on the topics which are most relevant to electric power engineering. Contents:Review of Electric and Magnetic Circuit Theory:Basic Electric Circuit TheoryAnalysis of Electric Circuits with Periodic Non-sinusoidal SourcesMagnetic Circuit TheoryPower Systems:Introduction to Power SystemsFault AnalysisTransformersSynchronous GeneratorsPower Flow Analysis and Stability of Power SystemsInduction MachinesPower Electronics:Power Semiconductor DevicesRectifiersInvertersDC-to-DC Converters (Choppers) Keywords:Power Systems;Electrical Machines;Power Electronics

"The book by Sridhar Chitta, where electrostatics and electric circuits are treated in a unified way on the basis of surface charges, is one of the rare exceptions in textbooks today. The primary objective of this book is obviously to encourage students to think deeply by themselves and not just to learn and to apply mathematical equations. If students, for instance, just learn about the term potential as "energy per charge" they have not understood much. On the contrary, the majority of students learn such mathematical expressions and unconsciously they feel that they have not understood. As a consequence they might lose interest in further learning. The content offered in Chitta´s book can only be "digested" with persistence, activation of spatial imagery and concentrated thinking. For students, properly guided and motivated by faculty or mentors, to easily transcend the limits of merely knowing the circuit and field expressions Ohm´s law, Kirchhoff´s rules, and Coulomb´s law etc., Chitta´s book offers the perfect content to deeply understand what they want to and should learn. It explains the nature of electricity in a much deeper manner than almost all the other textbooks. It shows the electrostatic aspect of electric circuits, the behavior of capacitors, the effect of pulses on such elements and many other aspects. Students who have worked through these chapters will leave with an increased self-confidence and the impression that complexity has been reduced, which means something important has been understood." -Dr Hermann Härtel, Guest Scientist, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (ITAP), University of Kiel, and Author of the seminal work "THE ELECTRIC VOLTAGE: What do students understand? What can be done for better understanding?" This textbook gives an in-depth coverage of mechanisms of processes in electric and electronic circuits by taking an intuitive approach to a unified treatment of electrostatics and circuits. The book contains hundreds of illustrations accompanying the textual descriptions which make this book a comprehensive introductory undergraduate textbook on fundamentals of electromagnetic theory and circuits. With its approach and coverage, it will be an indispensable textbook for courses in basic electrical engineering, basic electronics, engineering physics, modern physics and circuit theory. This book is accompanied with a CD-ROM which contains animated PowerPoint presentations for all the chapters including carefully selected links to animations and articles available on the Internet.