Chapter 6: Oscillating Currents,
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Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | Theory and Calculation of Transient Electric Phenomena and Oscillations |
| Year | 1909 |
| Section ID | theory-calculation-transient-electric-phenomena-oscillations-chapter-28 |
| Location | lines 5312-6797 |
| Status | candidate |
| Word Count | 4627 |
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Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”CHAPTER VI. OSCILLATING CURRENTS, 44. The charge and discharge of a condenser through an inductive circuit produces periodic currents of a frequency depending upon the circuit constants. The range of frequencies which can be produced by electro- dynamic machinery is rather limited: synchronous machines or ordinary alternators can give economically and in units of larger size frequencies from 10 to 125 cycles. Frequencies below 10 cycles are available by commutating machines with low frequency excitation. Above 125 cycles the difficulties rapidly increase, due to the great number of poles, high periph- eral speed, high power required for field excitation, poor regu- lation due to the massing of the conductors, which is required because of the small pitch per pole of the machine, etc., so that 1000 cycles probably is the limit of generation of constantSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Dielectricity / capacity
Section titled “Dielectricity / capacity”CHAPTER VI. OSCILLATING CURRENTS, 44. The charge and discharge of a condenser through an inductive circuit produces periodic currents of a frequency depending upon the circuit constants. The range of frequencies which can be produced by electro- dynamic machinery is rather limited: synchronous machines or ordinary alternators can give economically a ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”CHAPTER VI. OSCILLATING CURRENTS, 44. The charge and discharge of a condenser through an inductive circuit produces periodic currents of a frequency depending upon the circuit constants. The range of frequencies which can be produced by electro- dynamic machinery is rather limited: synchronous machines or ordinary alternators can give economically and in units of larger size frequencies from 10 to 125 cycles. Frequenci ...Transients / damping
Section titled “Transients / damping”... cy available by electrodynamic generation. It becomes of importance, therefore, to investigate whether by the use of the condenser discharge the range of frequencies can be extended. Since the oscillating current approaches the effect of an alternating current only if the damping is small, that is, the resistance low, the condenser discharge can be used as high frequency generator only by making the circuit of as low resist- ance as possible. 67 68 TRANSIENT PHENOMENA This, however, means limited power. When generating oscillat- ing currents b ...Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... he power factor is cos 00 = 0.05. 72 . TRANSIENT PHENOMENA Since the energy stored in the capacity is WQ = ^ joules, the critical resistance is hence, r. - „ 0 7 = 0.025, *'4 and the decrement of the oscillation is A = 0.92, that is, the decay of the wave is very slow at no load. Assuming, however, as load an external effective resistance equal to three times the internal resistance, that is, an elec- trical efficiency of 75 per cent, gives the total resistance as r + r' = 0.2 x\ hence, and the decrement is A = 0.73; ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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