Lecture 4: Single-Energy Transients In Alternating Current Circuits
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Lecture 4: Single-Energy Transients In Alternating Current Circuits
Elementary Lectures on Electric Discharges, Waves and Impulses, and Other Transients - lines 2162-2971
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field language, transients, magnetism, waves and transmission lines, radiation and light, impulse currents, transient phenomena
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Read this as an early engineering treatment of non-steady electrical behavior: sudden charge, discharge, wave travel, damping, and surge stress.
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