In electromagnetism, an eddy current (also called Foucault's current) is a loop of electric current induced within conductors by a changing magnetic field...
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An eddy current brake, also known as an induction brake, Faraday brake, electric brake or electric retarder, is a device used to slow or stop a moving...
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Eddy-current testing (also commonly seen as eddy current testing and ECT) is one of many electromagnetic testing methods used in nondestructive testing...
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Eddy current sensors uses the principle of eddy current formation to sense displacement. These sensors measure shaft displacement in rotating machinery...
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An eddy current separator (ECS) is a machine that uses a powerful magnetic field to separate non-ferrous metals from an input waste or ore stream. The...
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and Scottish families Eddy (given name), male given name Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid...
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring (sometimes seen as ECSR) are an Australian rock band formed in 2003. By 2004 their line-up was Daniel Young p.k.a. Danny...
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Eddy Current is a twelve issues comic-book series created in 1987 by Ted McKeever and published by Mad Dog Graphics. This and Transit were later tied into...
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needed] Eddy currents are electric currents that occur in conductors exposed to changing magnetic fields.[citation needed] Similarly, electric currents occur...
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Electromagnetic induction (redirect from Induced current)
magnetic field, will have circular currents induced within them by induction, called eddy currents. Eddy currents flow in closed loops in planes perpendicular...
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Induction heating (redirect from Eddy-current heating)
generating electric currents inside the conductor called eddy currents. The eddy currents flow through the resistance of the material, and heat it by...
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Dashpot (section Eddy current damper)
common viscous damper, the eddy current damper produces a resistive force proportional to velocity. A common use of the eddy current damper is in balance scales...
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1885. In early 1885, the three engineers also eliminated the problem of eddy current losses with the invention of the lamination of electromagnetic cores...
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Transformer (redirect from Magnetizing current)
magnetizing current losses, consisting of Hysteresis losses due to nonlinear magnetic effects in the transformer core, and Eddy current losses due to...
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Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge. An electrochemical cell is a prime example of DC power. Direct current may flow through...
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Dynamometer (section Eddy current type absorber)
manually controlled or determined by a computer. Most systems employ eddy current, oil hydraulic, or DC motor produced loads because of their linear and...
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Magnetic core (section Eddy-current losses)
account. In alternating current (AC) devices they cause energy losses, called core losses, due to hysteresis and eddy currents in applications such as...
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Voltage (redirect from Volts alternating current)
charge.[citation needed] The old SI definition for volt used power and current; starting in 1990, the quantum Hall and Josephson effect were used, and...
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In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime. The moving fluid creates...
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electromagnetism, current density is the amount of charge per unit time that flows through a unit area of a chosen cross section. The current density vector...
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Motor drive (section Eddy current drives)
(which is a function of field current), either armature voltage or field current can be used to control speed. An eddy current drive (sometimes called a "Dynamatic...
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side adjacent to the nearby conductor. Proximity effect is caused by eddy currents induced within a conductor by the time-varying magnetic field of the...
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voltage induced in an inductor or wire loop by a changing current, or the drag force of eddy currents exerted on moving objects in a magnetic field. Lenz's...
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AC motor (redirect from Alternating current motor)
super multiple of the supply frequency. Other types of motors include eddy current motors, and AC and DC mechanically commutated machines in which speed...
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frequency current is higher than its resistance to direct current because of skin effect. Due to induced eddy currents, radio frequency alternating current does...
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electric current passing through it. The resulting oscillating magnetic field induces an electrical current in the vessel. This large eddy current flowing...
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The launched roller coaster is a modern form of roller coaster. A launched coaster initiates a ride with high amounts of acceleration via one or a series...
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Linear encoder (section Eddy current)
encoder technologies include optical, magnetic, inductive, capacitive and eddy current. Optical technologies include shadow, self imaging and interferometric...
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field is concentrated there, eddy currents in the core are the major problem. Eddy currents are closed loops of current that flow in planes perpendicular...
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caused by opposing eddy currents induced by the changing magnetic field resulting from the alternating current. The electric current flows mainly at the...
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