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Lecture 6: Double-Energy Transients

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SourceElementary Lectures on Electric Discharges, Waves and Impulses, and Other Transients
Year1914
Section IDelectric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-lecture-06
Locationlines 3721-4369
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LECTURE VI. DOUBLE-ENERGY TRANSIENTS. 24. In a circuit in which energy can be stored in one form only, the change in the stored energy which can take place as the result of a change of the circuit conditions is an increase or decrease. The transient can be separated from the permanent condition, and then always is the representation of a gradual decrease of energy. Even if the stored energy after the change of circuit conditions is greater than before, and during the transition period an increase of energy occurs, the representation still is by a decrease of the transient. This transient then is the difference between the energy storage in the permanent condition and the energy storage during the transition period. If the law of proportionality between current, voltage, magnetic flux, etc., apphes, the single-energy
LECTURE VI. DOUBLE-ENERGY TRANSIENTS. 24. In a circuit in which energy can be stored in one form only, the change in the stored energy which can take place as the result of a change of the circuit conditions is an increase or decrease. The transient can be separated from the permanent condition, and then alw ...
... oefficient. Thus, if energy is stored by the current i, as magnetic field. To = -, (2) r where L = inductance = coefficient of energy storage by the cur- rent, r = resistance = coefficient of power dissipation by the current. If the energy is stored by the voltage e, as dielectric field, the duration of the transient would be TV - -, (3) g 59 60 ELECTRIC DISCHARGES, WAVES AND IMPULSES. where C = capacity = coefficient of energy storage by the volt- age, in the dielectric field, and g = conductance = coefficient of power consumption by the vol ...
... nergy occurs, the representation still is by a decrease of the transient. This transient then is the difference between the energy storage in the permanent condition and the energy storage during the transition period. If the law of proportionality between current, voltage, magnetic flux, etc., apphes, the single-energy transient is a simple exponential function : _ j_ y = 2/oe ^°, (1) where 2/0 = initial value of the transient, and To = duration of the transient, that is, the time which the transient voltage, current, etc., would last if mai ...
... nductance = coefficient of energy storage by the cur- rent, r = resistance = coefficient of power dissipation by the current. If the energy is stored by the voltage e, as dielectric field, the duration of the transient would be TV - -, (3) g 59 60 ELECTRIC DISCHARGES, WAVES AND IMPULSES. where C = capacity = coefficient of energy storage by the volt- age, in the dielectric field, and g = conductance = coefficient of power consumption by the voltage, as leakage conductance by the voltage, corona, dielectric hysteresis, etc. Thus the transien ...
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electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-0165y = 2/oe ^°, (1)line 3743
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-01662/0 = initial value of the transient, andline 3747
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-0167To = -, (2)line 3757
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-0168TV - -, (3)line 3766
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-0169e = eoe~’^\ (4)line 3782
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-0170T = ’-^ (5>line 3789
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-0171v = Vo[l-e~’^). (6)line 3796
electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-eq-candidate-01722^2^ (7)line 3811
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electric-discharges-waves-impulses-1914-fig-033= 0.000333 sec. = 0.33 millisecond; Fig. 33. hence, substituted in equation (28),line 4340
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