SINGLE-ENERGY TRANSIENTS. 25
The magnetic flux is CI>0 - 8 X 106? and with 4 n total turns
the total number of magnetic interlinkages thus is

4 n*0 » 32 n X 10fi,
hence the inductance
r 4n*olO""8 .32 n,
£ SB __^; „„., « _.tl., henrys.
The field excitation IB
nto » 6000 ampere turns,
hence
6000
hence
and

n
r ,32 X 6000 .
L » — , -s - henrys,
m L 1920
3.84 sec.
500
That is, the Btored magnetic energy could maintain full field
excitation for nearly 4 Hocondn.
It IB intonating to note that the duration of the field discharge
does not depend on the voltage, current, or nize of the machine,

but merely on, first, the magnetic*, flux and nun»l,~ which
determine the Btored magnetic, energy, — and, second, on the
excitation power, which determines the rate of energy dissipation.
15. AtiHinno now that in the moment where the transient be-
gins the resistance of the coil in Fig, 10 in increased, that is, the

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Tmntdant.
coil m not Hhort-drouiteti u|x>n itaelf, but its circuit by n
resifttiinfe r'. iSuch woul(ir for instance, to the ewe In fig. 12,
when opening the »witch W.