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Magnetic Circuits and Transformers

This document provides summaries of three books: a technical dictionary containing terms in English, French, German and Spanish; a textbook on magnetic circuits and transformers; and a textbook on applied electronics. It describes the purpose, contents, and treatment of topics in each book. The reviews evaluate each book and their usefulness for students and professionals in the relevant fields.

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Magnetic Circuits and Transformers

This document provides summaries of three books: a technical dictionary containing terms in English, French, German and Spanish; a textbook on magnetic circuits and transformers; and a textbook on applied electronics. It describes the purpose, contents, and treatment of topics in each book. The reviews evaluate each book and their usefulness for students and professionals in the relevant fields.

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Aug., ~943.] BOOK R E V I E W S .

227

experience in teaching the reading and translation of scientific and technical


material in foreign languages to the students of a polytechnical institution.
Beginning as a translator's vocabulary it grew vertically in the number of terms
and horizontally in the coverage of subjects until in its present form of this book
it covers such subjects as plane and solid geometry, trigonometry and advanced
algebra, materials and processes of industry, chemistry, physics, machine shop
terms, mechanical drawing, etc. It has French, German, and Spanish equiva-
lents, synonyms, and definitions of a basic list of some to,ooo English terms
currently used in the polytechnical and scientific fields. It contains in all these
languages approximately 45,ooo terms. Each entry is munbered, and separate
indexes of French, German and Spanish terms, correspondingly numbered, permit
two way use of any of these languages with the English. Entries are listed in
strict alphabetical order, the sole exception being compound terms, many: of which
are entered under parent terms to afford convenient reference of related subject
matter. A feature to eliminate useless searching is a comprehensive system of
cross-references offering a guide to the initial component of compound terms, to
synonymous terms, and to colloquialisms.
Every reader and translator of these languages would do well to examine
this work.
R. H. OPPERMANN.

MAGNETIC CIRCUITS AND TRANSFORMERS, by Members of the Staff of the Massa-


chusetts Institute of Technology. 718 pages, charts and diagrams, I6 X 23
cms. New York, J o h n Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1943. Price $6.50.
The subject of this book has often been termed by electrical engineers the
most interesting in the entire field. Certainly it is an important fundamental;
for magnetic circuits form the basis of electrical engineering and the transformer
is an indispensable apparatus as well as one having the highest efficiency. These
features of the subject make it one t h a t must be presented to students with the
utnmst care, and it is with this in mind that the Members of the Staff of the
Department of Electrical Engineering of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
have cooperated and produced this text. It is the second volume in the Prin-
ciples of Electrical Engineering series of books.
The t r e a t m e n t assumes t h a t the reader has knowledge of electric-circuit
theory. M a t h e m a t i c s through differential equations is freely used with stress
laid on the means of describing qnantitatively the consequences of physical
phenomena rather than its use as a substitute for the explanation of physical
p h e n o m e n a - - a valuable point in a text. There are two parts to the text as the
title implies. Under the heading of magnetic circuits, the treatment opens with
a discussion of the properties of the ferromagnetic materials of chief interest to
the electrical engineer. Numerous quantitative data are given which form the
basis for the solution of magnetic circuit problems treated later. Following this,
as an aid to a better visualization of the phenomena involved, a theory of mag-
netism is described. Principles of magnetic-circuit computations are laid down
and included with them is the subject matter of the special ingenious techniques
for the solution of problems. There are also covered in order, losses in magnetic
cores containing time-varying fluxes, alternating current excitation characteristics
of iron-core reactors and transformers, model theory and design of iron-core
228 BOOK REVIEWS. IJ. F. I.

reactors, and thermal properties and heat flow. While at first glance the latter
subject may seem a bit out of place, its coverage at this point is certainly justified
as heating is rightly considered as a very important element in design. Reference
is made in it to transient heating.
Part II treats on transformers beginning with elementary theory and general
principles including cost considerations. The procedure then follows the order
of physical features, leakage, theory of operation including voltage regulation
and efficiency, autotransformers, economy in power system applications, self and
mutual inductances, and coupled-circuit equations, frequency characteristics,
instrument and tap-changing transformers, applications in telephone systems,
three-phase connections and uses, harmonic phenomena, parallel operation, etc.
A vision of what all these topics and more mean will give the correct impression
that the subject of transformers is covered quite completely.
The many problems given for exercise are practical and interesting. As a
matter of fact they put forth a challenge to the graduate engineer reading them.
The presentation is clear and helpful. The subject index in the back adds much
to the value of the book as a reference.

R. H. OPPERMANN.

APPLIED ELECTRONICS, by Members of the Staff of the Massachusetts Institute


of Technology. 772 pages, charts and diagrams, t 5 )< 23 cms. New York,
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1943. Price $6.50.
Electronics is a magic word today in industry. It is reaching into every
branch of electrical engineering to an increasing extent and through this science
into an ever widening variety of industries with astonishing results. Shortened
processes are producing better materials in only a fraction of the former time.
From an electrical engineering educational viewpoint it is difficult to state a
more important subject today than electronics. The book at hand has for its
purpose the enlargement of the fundamental principles of electrical engineering
in the direction of the application of electronics. It is one of a series of books
resulting from educational research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The subject is taken up by first examining the physical phenomena involved
in electronic conduction. Under the topic entitled "Electron Ballistics" the domi-
nant concept presented is the relative ease and precision with which the motion
of a charged particle in free space may be controlled. This leads to the source of
supply of electrons and the study of the behavior of the free electrons in a metal
and the methods by which they may be liberated. Sufficient of the fundamental
concepts is given of this to be helpful in understanding the operation of electronic
devices. Likewise the bases for the understanding of electrical conduction
through vacuum, gases and vapors are given involving instances in which most of
the electrons and ions that participate in the discharge are supplied by the dis-
charge itself. An exception to this is the Townsend discharge which opens the
discussion on gaseous discharges.
What may be taken as the next large division of the book discusses the ways
in which the physical phenomena involved in electronic conduction combine to
determine the characteristics and limitations of some of the more important
electron tubes and the resulting characteristics. This division is devoted first

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