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NATURE AND ORIGIN OF TRANSIENTS. 9

energy. Thus in electric circuits containing energy stored in the
magnetic and in the dielectric field, the change of the amount
of stored energy — decrease or increase — frequently occurs by a
series of successive changes from magnetic to dielectric and back
again from dielectric to magnetic stored energy. This for instance
is the case in the charge or discharge of a condenser through an
inductive circuit.

If energy can be stored in more than two different forms, still
more complex phenomena may occur, as for instance in the hunt-
ing of synchronous machines at the end of long transmission lines,
where energy can be stored as magnetic energy in the line and
apparatus, as dielectric energy in the line, and as mechanical
energy in the momentum of the motor.

6. The study and calculation of the permanent phenomena in
electric circuits are usually far simpler than are the study and
calculation of transient phenomena. However, only the phe-
nomena of a continuous-current circuit are really permanent.
The alternating-current phenomena are transient, as the e.m.f.
continuously and periodically changes, and with it the current,
the stored energy, etc. The theory of alternating-current phe-
nomena, an periodic transients, thus has been more difficult than
that of continuous-current phenomena, until methods were devised
to treat the periodic transients of the alternating-current circuit
as permanent phenomena, by the conception of the " effective
values," and more completely by the introduction of the general
number or complex quantity, which represents the periodic func-
tion of time by a constant numerical value. In this feature lies
the advantage and the power of the symbolic method of dealing
with altemating-cmrrent phenomena, — the reduction of a periodic
transient to a permanent or constant quantity. For this reason,
wherever periodic, transients occur, as in rectification, commuta-
tion, etc., a considerable advantage is frequently gained by their
reduction to permanent phenomena, by the introduction of the
symbolic expression of the equivalent sine wave*

Hereby moat of the periodic transients have been eliminated
from consideration, and there remain mainly the nonporiodic
transients, as occur at any change of circuit conditions, Since
they are the phenomena of the readjustment of stored energy, a
study of the energy storage of the electric circuit, that Is, of Its
magnetic and dielectric field, is of first importance.



	NATURE AND ORIGIN OF TRANSIENTS. 9 energy. Thus in electric circuits containing energy stored in the magnetic and in the dielectric field, the change of the amount of stored energy — decrease or increase — frequently occurs by a series of successive changes from magnetic to dielectric and back again from dielectric to magnetic stored energy. This for instance is the case in the charge or discharge of a condenser through an inductive circuit. If energy can be stored in more than two different forms, still more complex phenomena may occur, as for instance in the hunt- ing of synchronous machines at the end of long transmission lines, where energy can be stored as magnetic energy in the line and apparatus, as dielectric energy in the line, and as mechanical energy in the momentum of the motor. 6. The study and calculation of the permanent phenomena in electric circuits are usually far simpler than are the study and calculation of transient phenomena. However, only the phe- nomena of a continuous-current circuit are really permanent. The alternating-current phenomena are transient, as the e.m.f. continuously and periodically changes, and with it the current, the stored energy, etc. The theory of alternating-current phe- nomena, an periodic transients, thus has been more difficult than that of continuous-current phenomena, until methods were devised to treat the periodic transients of the alternating-current circuit as permanent phenomena, by the conception of the " effective values," and more completely by the introduction of the general number or complex quantity, which represents the periodic func- tion of time by a constant numerical value. In this feature lies the advantage and the power of the symbolic method of dealing with altemating-cmrrent phenomena, — the reduction of a periodic transient to a permanent or constant quantity. For this reason, wherever periodic, transients occur, as in rectification, commuta- tion, etc., a considerable advantage is frequently gained by their reduction to permanent phenomena, by the introduction of the symbolic expression of the equivalent sine wave* Hereby moat of the periodic transients have been eliminated from consideration, and there remain mainly the nonporiodic transients, as occur at any change of circuit conditions, Since they are the phenomena of the readjustment of stored energy, a study of the energy storage of the electric circuit, that Is, of Its magnetic and dielectric field, is of first importance.