Chapter 17: Circuits With Distributed Leakage
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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-17 |
| Location | lines 30429-31656 |
| Status | candidate |
| Word Count | 2573 |
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Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”CHAPTER XVII CIRCUITS WITH DISTRIBUTED LEAKAGE 172. If an uninsulated electric circuit is immersed in a high- resistance conducting medium, such as water, the current does not remain entirely in the "circuit,*' but more or less leaks through the surrounding medium. The current, then^ is not the same throughout the entire circuit, but varies from point to point: the currents at two points of the circuit differ from each other by the current which leaks from the circuit between these two points. Such circuits with distributed leakage are the rail return circuit of electric railways; the lead armors of cables laid directly in the ground; water and gas pipes, etc. With lead-armored cables in ducts, with railway return circuits where the rails are supported •above the ground by sleepers, as in interurban roads, the leakageSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Impedance / reactance
Section titled “Impedance / reactance”... tc. When dealing with direct-current circuits, the induetance and the capacity of the conductor do not come into consideration except in the transients of current change, and in stationary con- ditions such a circuit thus is one of distributed series resistance and shunted conductance. Inductance also is absent with the current induced in the cable armor by an alternating current traversing the cable conductor, 330 CIRCUITS WITH DISTRIBUTED LEAKAGE 331 and with all low- and medium-voltage conductors, with the com- mercial frequencies of alternating ...Alternating current
Section titled “Alternating current”... h as water, the current does not remain entirely in the "circuit,*' but more or less leaks through the surrounding medium. The current, then^ is not the same throughout the entire circuit, but varies from point to point: the currents at two points of the circuit differ from each other by the current which leaks from the circuit between these two points. Such circuits with distributed leakage are the rail return circuit of electric railways; the lead armors of cables laid directly in the ground; water and gas pipes, etc. With lead-armored cables in ...Dielectricity / capacity
Section titled “Dielectricity / capacity”... d by an alternating current; or it may enter the conductor as leakage current, as is the case in cable armors, gas and water pipes, etc., in those cases where they pick up stray railway return currents, etc. When dealing with direct-current circuits, the induetance and the capacity of the conductor do not come into consideration except in the transients of current change, and in stationary con- ditions such a circuit thus is one of distributed series resistance and shunted conductance. Inductance also is absent with the current induced in the cable a ...Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... ersing the cable conductor, 330 CIRCUITS WITH DISTRIBUTED LEAKAGE 331 and with all low- and medium-voltage conductors, with the com- mercial frequencies of alternating currents, the capacity effects are so small as to be negligible. In high-voltage conductors, such as transmission lines, etc., in general, capacity and inductance require consideration as well as resistance and shunted conductance. This general case is fully discussed in "Theory and Calculation of Transient Electric Phe- nomena and Oscillations," and in "Electric Discharges, Waves and Impul ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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Section titled “Modern Engineering Reading Prompts”- Impedance / reactance: Translate historical opposition terms into modern impedance, admittance, conductance, susceptance, and complex-plane notation.
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Section titled “Ether-Field Interpretive Boundary”- Dielectricity / capacity: A Wheeler-style reading may emphasize dielectric compression, field stress, and stored potential, but this page treats that as interpretation unless Steinmetz explicitly says it.
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