Synopses & Reviews
Electric Machinery Fundamentals continues to be a best-selling machinery text due to its accessible, student-friendly coverage of the important topics in the field.
In the fifth edition, the use of MATLAB® continues to be incorporated in examples and problems, where applicable. The targeted and thought-provoking problems you've come to appreciate have been retained in this edition.
Chapman continues to share his up-to-date knowledge and experiences in the field in an engaging and understandable style.
Synopsis
Electric Machinery Fundamentals continues to be a best-selling machinery text due to its accessible, student-friendly coverage of the important topics in the field. Chapman's clear writing persists in being one of the top features of the book.
Although Chapman's book is not a book on MATLAB®, the use of MATLAB® is included in the fifth edition.
Synopsis
Electric Machinery Fundamentals continues to be a best-selling machinery text due to its accessible, student-friendly coverage of the important topics in the field. This edition contains improved flexibility in AC/DC coverage, and MATLAB® coverage is included in the fifth edition to allow students to use the computational software in solving problems.Chapman continues to share his up-to-date knowledge and experiences in the field in an engaging and understandable style.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction to Machinery Principles 2 Transformers 3 AC Machinery Fundamentals 4 Synchronous Generators 5 Synchronous Motors 6 Induction Motors 7 DC Machinery Fundamentals 8 DC Motors and Generators 9 Single-Phase and Special-Purpose Motors Appendix A Three-Phase Circuits Appendix B Coil Pitch and Distributed Windings Appendix C Salient-Pole Theory of Synchronous Machines Appendix D Tables of Contents and Conversion Factors