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DC Motors and Generators Reflection Paper

The document discusses DC motors and generators. It explains that DC motors convert electrical energy to mechanical energy, while DC generators convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. DC generators are classified based on how their fields are excited, such as separately excited, self-excited, series wound, shunt wound, and compound wound. The video focused on explaining the concepts and differences between DC motors and generators in an informative way, providing a good overview of their principles despite being an older video.

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DC Motors and Generators Reflection Paper

The document discusses DC motors and generators. It explains that DC motors convert electrical energy to mechanical energy, while DC generators convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. DC generators are classified based on how their fields are excited, such as separately excited, self-excited, series wound, shunt wound, and compound wound. The video focused on explaining the concepts and differences between DC motors and generators in an informative way, providing a good overview of their principles despite being an older video.

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Motors and generators have always played a big role in our lives whether we are aware of it or

not. In our everyday lives we encounter machineries that is associated with motors or generators, but
let’s be completely honest shall we? Growing up, we never really cared about the principles or how the
machines work; we just need it to get its job done. However, now that we have a lot more access to
information, we can get ahold of materials such as the video our class watched inside the class. The
video is entitled DC Motors and Generators and like the title suggests, the video circles around the
concept of DC motors and generators, how it works, and how it is different.

We have learned in our physics class that Faraday’s law states that current will be induced to a
conductor which is exposed to a changing magnetic field, it is denoted by the formula E=blv where E is
induced electromagnetic field, b is the field strength, l is the length of the conductor, and v is the
velocity. For rotating conductors that cuts through the magnetic field, the formula is changed slightly, it
becomes E=blvsin𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃. Now, how is DC motors different from AC motors? Both motors convert
electrical energy into mechanical energy; however, they are different in many ways. One major
difference is that a DC motor has a commutator and an AC motor does not; the commutator acts as a
reversing switch, however its function differs when we talk about generators.

The video focuses mainly on DC motors and generators; it doesn’t talk much about AC except
when it explained the concept of motors in the beginning of the video. So how is DC motors different
from DC generators? DC motors convert electrical energy to mechanical energy while DC generators
convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. DC generators are classified based on how their fields
are excited. Field coils that are excited by an external source is called a Separately Excited, while field
coils that are excited by the generator itself is called Self Excited. Self Excited DC Generators are further
classified into Series, Shunt, and Compound. When field coil is in series with the armature, it is called
Series Wound; since it is in series, the voltage regulation is poor, but when the field coil is in parallel with
the armature, it is called Shunt Wound and the increase in armature current will not increase the
voltage output. Lastly, when one winding is in series with the armature and another one is in parallel, it
is called Compound Wound. These are the content you can learn by watching the video. Although the
video is old, I can say that it did a great job on explaining the concepts about DC motors and generators.

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