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Chapter 2: Instantaneous Values And Integral Values

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SourceTheory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena
Year1900
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CHAPTER II INSTANTANEOUS VALUES AND INTEGRAL VALUES. 8. IN a periodically varying function, as an alternating current, we have to distinguish between the instantaneous value, which varies constantly as function of the time, and the integral value, which characterizes the wave as a whole. As such integral value, almost exclusively the effective Fig. 4. Alternating Wave. value is used, that is, the square root of the mean squares ; and wherever the intensity of an electric wave is mentioned without further reference, the effective value is understood. The maximum value of the wave is of practical interest only in few cases, and may, besides, be different for the two half-waves, as in Fig. 3. As arithmetic mean, or average value, of a wave as in Figs. 4 and 5, the arithmetical average of all the
CHAPTER II INSTANTANEOUS VALUES AND INTEGRAL VALUES. 8. IN a periodically varying function, as an alternating current, we have to distinguish between the instantaneous value, which varies constantly as function of the time, and the integral value, which characterizes the wave as a whole. As such integral value, almost exclusively the effective Fig. 4. Alternating Wave. value is used, that is, the square root of the mean squares ; and wherever the intensity of an electric wave is mentioned without further reference, the effective value is und ...
... wave whose positive values give the same sum total as the negative values ; that is, whose two half-waves have in rectangular coordinates the same area, as shown in Fig. 4. A pulsating wave is a wave in which one of the half- waves preponderates, as in Fig. 5. By electromagnetic induction, pulsating waves are pro- duced only by commutating and unipolar machines (or by the superposition of alternating upon direct currents, etc.). All inductive apparatus without commutation give ex- clusively alternating waves, because, no matter what con- Fig. 5. ...
CHAPTER II INSTANTANEOUS VALUES AND INTEGRAL VALUES. 8. IN a periodically varying function, as an alternating current, we have to distinguish between the instantaneous value, which varies constantly as function of the time, and the integral value, which characterizes the wave as a whole. As such integral value, almost exclusively the effective Fig. 4. Alternating Wave. value is used, that is, the square root of the mean squares ; and wherever the intensity of an electric wave is mentioned without further reference, the effectiv ...
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theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0037Figs. 4 and 5, the arithmetical average of all the instan-line 1390
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0038This arithmetic mean is either = 0, as in Fig. 4, or itline 1393
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0039mean value = 0.line 1432
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-00409. In a sine wave, the relation of the mean to the maxi-line 1448
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0041B, the sine varies from 0 to OB = 1. Hence the averageline 1458
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0042of the arc to that of the sine ; that is, 1 -f- 2 / 77-, and sinceline 1466
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0043Mean value of sine wave -r- maximum value = • — • -f- 1line 1472
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-eq-candidate-0044= .63663.line 1476
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theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-fig-008mum value is found in the following way : — Fig. 8. Let, in Fig. 6, AOB represent a quadrant of a circle with radius 1.line 1452
theory-calculation-alternating-current-phenomena-1900-fig-007found in the following way : Fig. 7. Let, in Fig. 7, AOB represent a quadrant of a circleline 1503
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