Identifications

1-2. What are two classes of AC machines

3. These are motors that convert ac electric energy to mechanical energy and generators that convert
mechanical energy to AC electric energy.

4-6. Voltage in any real machine will depend on these three factors, what are those three factors?

7-8. What are the two magnetic fields that an electric motor generate?

9. In a two pole stator AC machine the mechanical speed of rotation of the magnetic field equals to the
electrical frequency. True or false.

10-13. Enumerate the four categories of losses in an AC machine.

14. A small VR (desirable) implies that the generator’s output voltage is more constant for various loads.
True or False

15. A negative SR implies that a motor’s speed drops with increasing load.

16. A class of AC machines that are motors and generators whose magnetic field current is supplied by a
separate de power source.

17. A class of AC machines that are motors and generators whose field current is supplied by magnetic
induction (transformer action) into their fi eld windings.
18-19. The two main parts of AC machines.

20. It is the sum of the voltages on each of its sides or segments of a motor.

Problems

1. With a six pole alternator spinning at 1200 rpm, what would the frequency of the voltage be?

2. To generate an output frequency of 6oHz, what would be the rpm speed need to be with an eight
pole alternator?

3-5. The peak flux density of the rotor magnetic field in a simple 2-pole 3-phase generator is 0.5 T; the
mechanical speed of rotation is 7200 rpm; the stator diameter is 0.3 m; the length of its coil is 0.5 m and
each coil consists of 15 turns of wire. The machine is Y-connected.

a) What are the 3-phase voltages of the generator as a function of time?

b) What is the rms phase voltage of the generator?

c) What is the rms terminal voltage of the generator?