Electrical Machines: A Practical Approach

Electrical Machines covers the theoretical and mathematical concepts of the most commonly used electrical machines in industry and home appliances. This book presents the practical usage and functioning of electrical machines in a way which is easily understandable by the readers. It provides a different approach from other books and presents a step by step procedure on how to start and run the machine on various load, operating, and testing conditions and connections. It also presents a complete set of readings, calculations, and graphs/plots performed on standard electrical machines with rated voltage and current. Each chapter contains answers to questions related to particular machines and testing conditions/operations, solutions to numerical problems, and some exercise problems for practice.