Chapter 1: Electric Conduction. Soled And Liquid
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Source Metadata
Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | Theory and Calculation of Electric Circuits |
| Year | 1917 |
| Section ID | theory-calculation-electric-circuits-chapter-01 |
| Location | lines 959-3894 |
| Status | candidate |
| Word Count | 6860 |
| Equation Candidates In Section | 46 |
| Figure Candidates In Section | 6 |
| Quote Candidates In Section | 0 |
Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”CHAPTER I ELECTRIC CONDUCTION. SOLED AND LIQUID CONDUCTORS 1, When electric power flows through a circuit, we find phe- nomena taking place outside of the conductor which directs the flow of power, and also inside thereof. The phenomena outside of the conductor are conditions of stress in space which are called the electric field, the two main components of the electric field being the electromagnetic component, characterized by the cir- cuit constant inductance, L, and the electrostatic component, characterized by the electric circuit constant capacity, C. Inside of the conductor we find a conversion of energy into heat; that is, electric power is consumed in the conductor by what may be considered as a kind of resistance of the conductor to the flow of electric power, and so we speak of resistance of the conductorSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Dielectricity / capacity
Section titled “Dielectricity / capacity”... lso inside thereof. The phenomena outside of the conductor are conditions of stress in space which are called the electric field, the two main components of the electric field being the electromagnetic component, characterized by the cir- cuit constant inductance, L, and the electrostatic component, characterized by the electric circuit constant capacity, C. Inside of the conductor we find a conversion of energy into heat; that is, electric power is consumed in the conductor by what may be considered as a kind of resistance of the conductor to the flow of el ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”... se conductors in which the conduction of the electric current converts energy into no other form but heat. That is, a consumption of power takes place in the metallic con- 1 2 ELECTRIC CIRCUITS ductors by conversion into heat, and into beat only. Indirectly, we may get light, if the heat produced raises the temperature high enough to get visible radiation as in the incandescent lamp filament, but this radiation is produced from heat, and directly the conversion of electric energy takes place into beat. Most of the metaUic conductors cover, as re ...Lightning / surges
Section titled “Lightning / surges”... mite), metaUic sulphides, silicates such aa glass, many salts, etc. Intimate mixtures of conductors, as graphite, coke, powdered metal, with non-conductors as clay, carborundum, cement, also have pyroelectric conduction. Such are used, for instance, as "resistance rods" in lightning arresters, in some rheostats, as ELECTRIC CONDUCTION 13 cement resistances for high-frequency power dissipation in re- actances, etc. Many, if not all so-called "insulators" probably are in reality pyroelectric conductors, in which the maximum voltage point 6 is so h ...Ether references
Section titled “Ether references”... >i>flSQ_9O0J_ WoltOO-KOOJ. ffiU M acteristic derived therefrom, with log r as ordinates, of a magnetic rod 6 in. long and % in. in diameter, consisting of 90 per cent, magnetite (FejOO, 9 per cent, chromite (FeCr204) and 1 per cent, sodium silicate, sintered together. 10. As result of these volf^ampere characteristics. Figs. 4 to 10, pyroelectric conductors as structural elements of an electric circuit show some very interesting effects, which may be illus- ELECTRIC CONDUCTION 15 trated on the magnetite rod, Fig. 9. The maximuin ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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Equation Candidates
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theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0001 | ance, a rather narrow range, between about 1.6 microhm-cm. | line 1003 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0002 | {1.6 X 10~*) for copper, to about 100 microhm-cm. for cast iron, | line 1004 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0003 | I on Fig. 1. Thus, the resistance may be expressed by | line 1190 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0004 | r = roT (1) | line 1192 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0005 | 3. The metallic conductors are the most important ones in | line 1211 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0006 | 1.3 ohm-cm., in 30 per cent, nitric acid, and still lower in fused | line 1264 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0007 | salts, to about 10,000 ohm-cm. in pure river water, and from there | line 1265 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-eq-candidate-0008 | For instance, copper, with atomic weight 63 and valency 2, has | line 1469 |
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theory-calculation-electric-circuits-fig-001 | L Fig. 1. A characteristic of metallic conductoi^ is that the resistance | line 1172 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-fig-002 | / Fig. 2. ance over a very wide range of temperature is extremely difficult, and often no more accurate. | line 1421 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-fig-004 | mm Fig. 4. though the temperature coefficient remains negative, like in electrolytic conductors. | line 1729 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-fig-005 | a Fig. 5. often plotted with -/i as abscissae, to show the ranges in better | line 1860 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-fig-010 | M Fig. 10. This, however, still further increases the required voltage and | line 2593 |
theory-calculation-electric-circuits-fig-013 | L Fig. 13. ticity, metallic luster, etc., and electrically it has a relatively | line 3274 |
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Section titled “Modern Engineering Reading Prompts”- Dielectricity / capacity: Check whether the passage treats capacity, condensers, displacement, or dielectric stress as field storage rather than only circuit algebra.
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- Field language: Read for whether field language is mechanical, geometrical, causal, descriptive, or simply a convenient engineering model.
Ether-Field Interpretive Boundary
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