Alternating current power transmission; uses, advantages.
Power factor, lag, lead, volt-amperes, true watts.
Single- and three-phase currents; uses and nature of each.
Three-wire transmission systems, alternators, construction, and action.
A-c. motors, series, induction, synchronous.
[INDEX]
- Aberration, spherical, [408]
- Absolute scale of temperature, [164]
- Absorptions of gases by solids and liquids, [29]
- Accelerated motion, [86]
- Acceleration, [87]
- Adhesion, [21]
- Aeroplane, [97]
- Air, aspirator, [67]
- Alternators, [481]
- Alternating current, [337], [466]
- Amalgamation, [273]
- Ammeter, [291]
- Ampere, [291]
- Archimedes' principle, [48]
- Arc light, [321]
- Armature, [335]
- Artesian wells, [44]
- Audion, [463]
- Aurora borealis, [453]