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    A homopolar generator is a DC electrical generator comprising an electrically conductive disc or cylinder rotating in a plane perpendicular to a uniform...
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    Faraday also built the first electromagnetic generator, called the Faraday disk; a type of homopolar generator, using a copper disc rotating between the...
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  • A homopolar motor is a direct current electric motor with two magnetic poles, the conductors of which always cut unidirectional lines of magnetic flux...
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  • A pure homopolar generator (PHG) is an electric generator not requiring brushes or electronics or semiconductor parts to convert torque into direct current...
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    motion of ∂Σ is divorced from the motion of the material. Faraday's homopolar generator. The disc rotates with angular rate ω, sweeping the conducting radius...
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    the design and construction of the world's largest (500 megajoule) homopolar generator. He retired in 1967, but was appointed Governor of South Australia...
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    Dynamo (category Electrical generators)
    He also built the first electromagnetic generator, called the Faraday disk, a type of homopolar generator, using a copper disc rotating between the...
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  • experiments measuring the total power and efficiency of the motor. Homopolar generator Homopolar motor Faraday paradox McDonald 2020. R H Barker (1965). "Ball...
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    having a separate flywheel and generator, only the large rotor of the alternator stores energy. See also Homopolar generator. Using a continuously variable...
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  • electrostatic induction. The Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator still used in research today. Homopolar machines are true DC machines where...
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    bulky and expensive but can supply large amounts of energy quickly. Homopolar generators can be used to convert the kinetic energy of a flywheel into electric...
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  • of a large low speed superconducting homopolar motor for ship propulsion. Superconducting homopolar generators have been considered as pulsed power sources...
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  • Faraday built the first electromagnetic generator, called the Faraday disk, a type of homopolar generator, using a copper disc rotating between the...
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    the design and construction of the world's largest (500 megajoule) homopolar generator. This machine was operational from 1962 and was later used to power...
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    research priorities, leading to the construction of a 500 megajoule homopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvolts cyclotron in the 1950s. These devices...
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  • the same time. October 28 – Faraday develops the Faraday Wheel, a homopolar generator. Joseph Henry invents the electric bell. James Meadows Rendel erects...
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    on the armature shaft converts into a direct current output; or a homopolar generator produces a direct current without the need for a commutator. M-G...
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  • connected in either parallel or series pattern. A homopolar generator is an electrical generator comprising an electrically conductive disc or cylinder...
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  • temperatures): US5144179 (A), DE102012022152 (A1), CN1671030 (A) Pure homopolar generator Rotating magnetic field brushless motors with electronics Ivana,...
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    synchronous motors. Other types of DC motors require no commutation. Homopolar motor – A homopolar motor has a magnetic field along the axis of rotation and an...
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  • simple, and a number of devices from large banks of capacitors to homopolar generators have been used. However, generating the required magnetic fields...
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  • a home. homopolar generator A generator in which current and magnetic field direction are constant as the machine rotor revolves. homopolar motor A motor...
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    Electrodynamic tether (category Electrical generators)
    Earth, or of its core, is not relevant. In this regard, see also homopolar generator. With a long conducting wire of length L, an electric field E is...
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    Electrolysers require high currents produced by very low voltages. A homopolar generator has the ability to do this, so in Bockris and Ghoroghchian's original...
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  • dark space – The dark area in front of a cathode in a vacuum tube Homopolar generator, aka Faraday disc or Faraday wheel Faraday effect – Physical magneto-optical...
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  • function as the proton injector was completed in 1955, and the large homopolar generator intended to power the system was first operated in 1962, but by this...
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  • Georg Ohm also constructed an early electrostatic machine. The homopolar generator was developed first by Michael Faraday during his memorable experiments...
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  • Hollow cathode effect Hollow-cathode lamp Holtsmark distribution Homopolar generator Horizon problem Hydrogen Hydrogen sensor Hypernova Hypersonic speed...
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    motors Loudspeakers Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters Electrical generators Homopolar generators Linear alternators Hall effect Electromagnetism Gravitomagnetism...
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    investigative costs. The device is referenced in the Big Black song "Newman Generator", recorded for their 1987 Peel Session. Ferranti effect Gyroscope Inductor...
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