Chapter 6: Transition Points And The Complex Circuit

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Field	Value
Source	Theory and Calculation of Transient Electric Phenomena and Oscillations
Year	1909
Section ID	`theory-calculation-transient-electric-phenomena-oscillations-chapter-55`
Location	lines 32709-33527
Status	candidate
Word Count	3666
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CHAPTER VI. TRANSITION POINTS AND THE COMPLEX CIRCUIT. 40. The discussions of standing waves and free oscillations in Chapters III and V, and traveling waves in Chapter IV, apply directly only to simple circuits, that is, circuits comprising a con- ductor of uniformly distributed constants r, L, g, and C. Indus- trial electric circuits, however, never are simple circuits, but are always complex circuits comprising sections of different con- stants, — generator, transformer, transmission lines, and load, — and a simple circuit is realized only by a section of a circuit, as a transmission line or a high-potential transformer coil, which is cut off at both ends from the rest of the circuit, either by open- circuiting, i = 0, or by short-circuiting, e = 0. Approximately, the simple circuit is realized by a section

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Waves / transmission lines

CHAPTER VI. TRANSITION POINTS AND THE COMPLEX CIRCUIT. 40. The discussions of standing waves and free oscillations in Chapters III and V, and traveling waves in Chapter IV, apply directly only to simple circuits, that is, circuits comprising a con- ductor of uniformly distributed constants r, L, g, and C. Indus- trial electric circuits, however, never are simple ci ...

Transients / damping

CHAPTER VI. TRANSITION POINTS AND THE COMPLEX CIRCUIT. 40. The discussions of standing waves and free oscillations in Chapters III and V, and traveling waves in Chapter IV, apply directly only to simple circuits, that is, circuits comprising a con- ductor of uniformly distributed constants r, L, g, and C. Indus- trial electric circuits, however, never are simple circuits, but are alway ...

Radiation / light

... inductance and the capacity, respect- ively, of the section i of the circuit, per unit length, for instance, per mile, in a line, per turn in a transformer coil, etc. In a complex circuit the time variable t is the same throughout the entire circuit, or, in other words, the frequency of oscillation, as represented by q, and the rate of decay of the oscillation, as represented by the exponential function of time, must be the same throughout the entire circuit. Not so, however, with the distance variable Z; the wave length of the oscillation and its rate ...

Dielectricity / capacity

... hout the entire circuit, and across transition points, at which the circuit constants change, and the same equations (266) and (267) apply throughout the entire circuit. In this case, however, in any section of the circuit, (268) where Lt and Ct are the inductance and the capacity, respect- ively, of the section i of the circuit, per unit length, for instance, per mile, in a line, per turn in a transformer coil, etc. In a complex circuit the time variable t is the same throughout the entire circuit, or, in other words, the frequency of oscillation, ...

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