Glossary of Motor Terms
Gauss’s theorems
Gauss, who was the observatory chief of Göttingen, also studied geomagnetism with Weber.
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Gauss discovered many theorems, but the most important ones that relate to the theory and design of magnetics and motors are...
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n is the unit normal vector. The normal vector has a
length of 1 (1 meter in SI unit, but 1 cm in the Gauss unit system) and is perpendicular to the plane of the
object.
B is the magnetic flux density
A is an arbitrary vector