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Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena (1900)

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Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena

Third edition, revised and enlarged; Open Library and Wikimedia Commons point to this Internet Archive item.

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Early expanded AC edition; important for tracking the growth of impedance, reactance, transformer, harmonic, and symbolic-method language.

  • Source type: book_edition
  • Internet Archive identifier: theorycalculatio00steiiala
  • Generated section records: 32
  • Candidate equations: 300
  • Candidate figures: 91
  • Candidate quote hits: 0
  • Review status: OCR-derived candidates, not a corrected critical edition.

Third edition, revised and enlarged; Open Library and Wikimedia Commons point to this Internet Archive item.

The PDF/page images remain the verification base. The archive has preserved the Internet Archive OCR and generated candidate catalogs so this source can now participate in search, source-text browsing, concept concordance, theme evidence, and chapter workbench pages.

  1. Verify title page, edition, and publication metadata.
  2. Correct the section map if OCR headings caused false splits.
  3. Scan-check equations and diagrams before promotion.
  4. Add modern engineering explanations only after source passages are anchored.
  5. Keep edition differences visible when comparing related Steinmetz works.

Generated source dashboard: this section joins the source overview to the book coverage atlas, source text reader, chapter workbench, visual maps, and formula maps. Counts are candidate research aids until scan verification promotes them.

32

processed sections

91,217

candidate words

300

formula candidates

91

figure candidates

0

promoted crops

What This Source Currently Gives The Archive

Section titled “What This Source Currently Gives The Archive”

Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena currently contributes 32 processed sections and 91,217 candidate OCR/PDF-text words to the archive. Its strongest tracked evidence clusters are Impedance / reactance, Magnetism, Waves / transmission lines.

This is a routing judgment based on processed metadata, not a final historical claim. The strongest next move for any exact quotation, equation, or diagram is still to open the source scan and check the page image.

ThemeCandidate HitsEvidence Route
Impedance / reactance776Open theme evidence
Magnetism682Open theme evidence
Waves / transmission lines654Open theme evidence
Dielectricity / capacity392Open theme evidence
Radiation / light277Open theme evidence
Alternating current276Open theme evidence
Field language238Open theme evidence
Complex quantities207Open theme evidence

Chapter 4: Graphic Representation

lines 1743-2321 - 3,152 words

Signals

Waves / transmission lines, Impedance / reactance, Magnetism

Frequency, Light, Ether
Candidate material

8 equations - 8 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 8: Circuits Containing Resistance, Inductance, And Capacity

lines 3577-5333 - 4,195 words

Signals

Impedance / reactance, Dielectricity / capacity, Alternating current

Ether, Light
Candidate material

8 equations - 8 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 6: Topographic Method

lines 2774-3131 - 1,850 words

Signals

Dielectricity / capacity, Waves / transmission lines, Alternating current

Ether
Candidate material

8 equations - 7 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 5: Symbolic Method

lines 2322-2773 - 1,993 words

Signals

Waves / transmission lines, Complex quantities, Impedance / reactance

Frequency
Candidate material

8 equations - 3 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 2: Instantaneous Values And Integral Values

lines 1367-1605 - 895 words

Signals

Waves / transmission lines, Magnetism, Alternating current

No current concept hits
Candidate material

8 equations - 2 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 3: Law Of Electro-Magnetic Induction

lines 1606-1742 - 724 words

Signals

Magnetism, Field language, Radiation / light

Frequency, Ether
Candidate material

8 equations - 0 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 1: Introduction

lines 963-1366 - 2,368 words

Signals

Waves / transmission lines, Magnetism, Impedance / reactance

Frequency, Light
Candidate material

8 equations - 0 figures - 0 quotes

Chapter 7: Admittance, Conductance, Susceptance

lines 3132-3576 - 1,254 words

Signals

Impedance / reactance, Complex quantities, Alternating current

No current concept hits
Candidate material

8 equations - 0 figures - 0 quotes

TermCandidate HitsUse
ether35Review in workbench before promoting to glossary.
wave length3Review in workbench before promoting to glossary.

Source custody

Verify title page, edition, page images, and OCR line boundaries before final quotation.

Mathematics

Use the formula map to locate equations, then correct OCR symbols and preserve Steinmetz notation before modern translation.

Interpretation boundary

Modern engineering and ether-field readings belong after source anchoring, with labels kept visible.