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Answer: The generator simply converts mechanical energy into electrical energy while the motor does
the opposite by converting electrical energy to mechanical energy.
Reference: https://www.scribd.com/doc/23994930/Motors-Generators
Answer: The armature is a part of a generator that is laminated iron core with wire wound around it
where electromotive force is produced by magnetic induction in a generator or motor.
Field provides the magnetic field with which the armature interacts.it is also the electrically conducting
circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series that produces the
magnetic field in a motor or generator.1
Ref : http://acim.nidec.com/motors/usmotors/techdocs/profacts/motor-machinery-terminology
3. What two important requirements are necessary before generator action is possible?
Answer: The two imporatnt requirements are presence of magnetic line of force and motion of
conductors cutting the flux1.
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4. What two important requirements are necessary before motor action is possible?
Answer: The two important requirements are presence of magnetic lines of force and current through
conductors lying in the magnetic field.
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Answer: The faraday's law states that the emf induced in a circuit is proportional to the time rate of
change of the magnetic flux linking that circuit.
Ref : http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/302l/lectures/node85.html
6. In what two ways is it possible to generate a higher voltage in a moving conductor?
Answer : It can be done through increasing the number of turns of wire in the coil and increasing the
speed of the relative motion between the coil and the magnet.
7. How many lines of force must be cut per second if 1 volt is to be generated in a moving conductor?
Answer: According to Lenz's law , 1 volt is generated for every 100,000,000 lines cut per one second.
8. In an actual generator, what effect has the number of parallel paths in the armature winding upon the
terminal voltage?
Answer: The number of parallel paths determine the current rating of a generator, whereas the number
of series conductor per path is a measure of the terminal voltage of the machine.
9. What effect has the number of armature paths upon the current-carrying ability of a generator?
10. Is the power output of a generator affected by the number of parallel paths in the armature winding?
Give reasons for your answer.
Answer: No, because the power rating is independent in the way of which the cells or conductors are
connected.
12. Write the fundamental voltage equation as a function of the total number armature conductors and
the
number of armature-winding circuits.
13. What two factors determine the direction of the generated voltage in a conductor moving through a
magnetic field?
Answer: the two factors are the direction of the flux,which is,of course determined by magnet polarity
and the direction of motion of a conductor or coil.
14. Considering a dc generator, in what two ways can polarity (plus and minus) of the brushes be
changed?
Ans:
15. Using the fictitious “rubber-band” comparison, explain how the direction of the voltage may be
determined.
Ans : The Lenz's law states that the direction of an induced emf will be such that if it were to cause a
current to flow in a conductor in an external circuit, then that current would generate a field that would
oppose the change that created it.
Ref: https://isaacphysics.org/concepts/cp_lenzs_law
17. Using Lenz’s law, explain how the direction of the generated voltage may be determined.
19. What is an alternating current? What is meant by the frequency of an alternating current?
Answer: Alternating current describes the flow of charge that changes direction periodically.
Frequency is the rate at which alternating current reverses its direction of flow. can be measured in hertz
(Hz); 1 Hz = 1 cycle per second.
Ref: http://acim.nidec.com/motors/usmotors/techdocs/profacts/motor-machinery-terminology
Answer: The factors are the number of stator poles and the speed of rotation of the rotor.
Ref: https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/two-factors-determine-output-frequency-alternator-
chapter-32-problem-6rq-solution-9781305537125-exc
22. Carefully describe the commutation process, using appropriate sketches to illustrate your answer.
23. Why is it desirable to have many coils of wire and commutator segments on the armature of a dc
generator?
Answer: Torque is a turning force that is applied to a shaft that tends to cause rotation. It is also the force
applied times the radius through which it acts.
Ref: http://acim.nidec.com/motors/usmotors/techdocs/profacts/motor-machinery-terminology
26. What factors determine the force exerted by a conductor on the armature of a dc motor?
27. Will a force be exerted by a conductor carrying a current when it is placed parallel to a magnetic
field?
Explain carefully.
28. What happens to existing uniform field if a conductor carrying a current is placed in this field?
29. Using a sketch showing a two-pole motor with a single coil placed with its two sides under the pole
centers,
30. Why is no torque developed by those conductors occupying positions in the interpolar spaces of a
motor?
31. What is the essential difference between commutation in a dc generator and commutation in a dc
motor?
33. What two types of field winding are used in dc machine? How do they differ from each other with
regard to
the number of turns of wire? the size of wire? the manner in which they are connected?
34. When is it desirable and permissible to use permanent magnets in dc machines? What kind of
material is