Glossary of Motor Terms
Right-hand screw law
The right-hand screw law is a groundbreaking law derived in 1820 by Ampere that gives the direction and size of the magnetic field intensity H at a distance r from the center of a straight conducting wire carrying current I.
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Term List (R)
- Rare earth magnet
- Reactive power
- Rectification via commutator
- Regenerative brake
- Reluctance motor
- Remanence,Remanent magnetization
- Resolver
- Reversible motor
- Revolutions per minute (rpm)
- Revolutions per second (rps)
- Revolving field (Rotating field)
- Revolving field motor
- Right-hand screw law
- Ring spring
- Riser
- RMS (Root-mean square) value
- Rotor, Stator
- Rotor cross-sectional structures