Application of network theory to the analysis of rotating machinery part I - Synchronous and asynchronous machines

AS the technology of engineering progresses a point is sometimes reached where, by the expansion and generalization of certain basic concepts, two or more seemingly unrelated areas of study can be brought together and shown to have a common origin. The common origins are very important to those in the teaching profession, where the rapid expansion of the engineering profession demands that an ever-increasing amount of technical understanding be developed in the student with little or no increase in student contact time. Without these common origins, the necessary increase in teaching efficiency would be difficult to attain. One of the purposes of this, the companion paper,1 and a conference paper, "General Network Theory in Terms of Matrix Algebra" by M. B. Reed, is to show that by expanding our general network theory and concepts as we now think of them, and by taking a slightly different and more general viewpoint toward the rotating machinery problem, these two areas of technology can be built on a common and rigorous foundation which results in a clearer and broader understanding of both areas, and at the same time will perhaps provide for a more efficient teaching program.