Two-dimensional fields in electrical engineering

This little book comprises a collection of problems related to leakage reactance, short circuit forces, tank stray loss, circulating currents, and electrostatic shielding of transformers; the pole flux fringing, slot leakage reactance, air gap permeance, tooth tip flux, conductor eddy current loss, rotor stray loss, armature reaction, and torques of rotating machines; the reactances, capacitances, skin and proximity effects, and insulator voltage distribution of transmission lines; the capacitances of parallel plate, or cylindrical condensers; the reactances and mechanical forces of coils and magnets; the radiation patterns of antenna; the heating of conductors; the forces on bus bars and switches; the flow of cooling fluids-all these and many more are common field problems encountered by the electrical engineer.
Its intended purpose is fourfold: (1) to offer a readily available selection of typical engineering field problems of interest to professional engineers, (2) to bridge the existing gap in the consideration of fields by undergraduate electrical engineering curricula, (3) to introduce young students to the methods and procedures of mathematical physics, and finally, (4) to point out by means of examples the close identity between problems in electric or magnetic fields and equivalent problems in other branches of science.