Essays Tagged: "DC motor"

How an electric motor works

ent Motor has 6 essential parts: armature, or rotor; commutator; brushes; axle; field magnet; and a DC power supply. With an understanding of magnets and magnetism, these 6 parts become a motor.The fi ... erstanding of magnets and magnetism, these 6 parts become a motor.The first step in understanding a dc motor is an electromagnet. An electromagnet is a magnet consisting, essentially, of a coil of ins ...

(1 pages) 86 2 2.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Electrical Engineering

One application of magnetic fields in household appliances.

frame is often called the armature. The electromagnetic field works as shown in the diagrams below.DC motors.A simple DC electric motor. When the coil is powered, a magnetic field is generated around ... ial difference is the difference in potential between two points in a conservative vector field. ...DC motors.One of the first electromagnetic rotary motors, if not the first, was invented by Michael ...

(14 pages) 48 0 0.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The world

ds the conductorsCommentatorA commentator is a mechanism used to switch the input of certain AC and DC machines consisting of slip ring segments insulated from each other and from the electric motor's ... displaced by externally commutated induction and permanent magnet motors.BrushesAll self-commutated DC motors are by definition run on DC electric power. Most DC motors are small PM types. They contai ...

(11 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution