About this ebook
Besides updating the sixteen chapters of the previous edition, it now incorporates ten new chapters dealing with synchronous machines, single/three phase motors, ac commutator motors and stepper motors.
The present text, written in a lucid style, is the culmination of more than four decades of the author’s long experience in teaching of electrical engineering subjects, especially electrical machines at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Key features
• Easy to follow, understand and implement.
• Includes about 440 worked-out examples.
• Contains 721 MCQs (with answers) to help students measure their understanding and analysing skills and evaluate their knowledge.
• Offers about 515 chapter-end exercises with answers to build problem solving skills and gain hands-on experience and self-confidence.
• Includes many real-life examples to enable students to analyse and implement theoretical concepts in real-life situations.
• Difficult concepts like commutation explained in great detail so as to make students grasp concept with clear understanding.
The book is primarily designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Besides, the students of all other branches of engineering will find this text useful for their course study.
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About the author
M. Maria Louis has been Professor and Head of Electrical Engineering Department at NIT, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. He has also served as Professor and Head and later Principal, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai; Director, Karunya University, Coimbatore; Principal, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul; and Christ The King Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.
Prof. Maria Louis has published numerous papers in national and international journals of repute. He has set up the electrical engineering laboratories in the above colleges in Tamil Nadu. He has been a member and later Chairman of Board of Studies (Engineering) of many universities in Tamil Nadu and was instrumental in updating and revamping the syllabi of subjects in electrical engineering.
Prof. Maria Louis is the recipient of the “Outstanding Academic Award” of the Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi and the “Best Teacher Award” of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
