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Eddy Current Braking System: Physics Project
Eddy Current Braking System: Physics Project
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SL NO. TOPIC PAGE NUMBER
1. Teacher’s certificate 3
2. Acknowledgement 4
3. Introduction 5
4. Experiment 1 6
5. Experiment 2 7
Undesirable effects of
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eddy currents
7. Minimization 9
8. Applications 10
9. Applications(continued) 11
10. Principle of model 12
11. Bibliography 13
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TEACHER’S CERTIFICATE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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My gratitude to my Lab Assistant sir for his
cooperation.
Last but not the least I owe my sincere thanks
to all those who helped me in many tangible
and intangible ways.
Marisha Ghosh
INTRODUCTION
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discovered by Focault in 1895, they are also
known as Focault currents.
EXPERIMENT 1 TO DEMONSTRATE
EDDY CURRENTS
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the pendulum get highly damped and soon it comes
to rest. This is because as the copper plate moves in
between the pole pieces of the magnet, magnetic
flux threading through it changes. So eddy currents
are set up in it which according to Lenz’s law, oppose
the motion of the copper plate in the magnetic field.
Eddy currents flow anticlockwise as the plate swings
into the field and clockwise as the plate swings out of
the field.
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electromagnet is switched on, eddy currents are set
up in the plate, but this plate swings for longer
duration than the plate without slots. This is because
the loop has much larger paths for the electrons to
travel. Larger paths offer more resistance to
electrons and so the eddy currents are sufficiently
reduced. As a result, the opposition to the oscillations
becomes very small.
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UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS OF EDDY
CURRENTS
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MINIMISATION
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APPLICATIONS OF EDDY CURRENTS
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APPLICATIONS (CONTINUED)
• Induction furnace
• Speedometers
• Induction motor
• Electromagnetic shielding
• Inductothermy
• Energy meters
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PRINCIPLE OF EDDY CURRENT BRAKE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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