Electrical Theory Review
Maximum current flow
What is a short circuit?
Materials that are easily magnetized
What are ferromagnetic materials?
The cross-sectional area of American conductors
What are circular mils?
show both magnitude and direction
What is a vector?
type of current that has a changing polarity
What is alternating current?
Material that allows electrical current to flow freely
What is a conductor?
Materials that are not easily magnetized
What are paramagnetic materials?
Power in an electrical circuit is equal to voltage multiplied by current
What is Watt's Law?
show magnitude only
What are scalars?
value that does not apply to a pure AC sine wave
What is average?
Material that strongly resist the flow of current
What is an insulator?
Increase the strength of a magnetic field
What does increasing the current in a conductor do?
A circuit has one path for current to flow
What is a series circuit?
rotate at the frequency of the AC waveform
What are phasors?
Designed in 2 basic styles
What are AC generators?
Heat generated from current flow
What is thermoelectricity?
Used to show motion, the direction of the magnetic field, and the direction of current flow produced for electromagnetic induction
What is the left-hand rule for generators?
each resistor has a voltage equal to the source voltage
What is a parallel circuit?
trigonometric function is used to solve the horizontal component
What is cosine?
Where the voltage is induced in an AC generator
What is an armature?
Produced using the principle of magnetism
What is most commercial power?
Circulate(s) inside conductors in AC circuits and restrict(s) current flow
What are eddy currents?
Contains both series and parallel resistors
What is a combination circuit?
trigonometric function used to solve the vertical component using the Vector Addition Calculator
What is sine?
component that contains the coil(s) of wire in a revolving field generator
What is the stator?