EL 206 - Machines and Controls

Credit Hours: 3

Magnetics; electromagnetics; B-H curves; Faraday’s Law; ideal transformers; practical transformer; losses; hysteresis; eddy currents; equivalent circuit, Lenz’s Law; short circuit/open circuit testing; introduction to heat, torque, speed, inertia; DC motor theory; shunt, series, compound motor characteristics; armature reaction; Lorentz’s Law; review of three phase power; AC motor theory; induction, synchronous, three phase and single phase motors.
Prerequisites: EL 150