... 1894.]STEINMETZONHYSTERESIS.5 93 orE1.6V10tiy31 03 P=aNfwhere:a=8-<8St.6fl65or,substituLting.0 033 :a191.45l6'or,substitutinigV=S1l,whereI=length of mnagneticcircuit:L01._58VL1 03 1914/28r16S6A1.6-S6165.6n1.6and58E16L1 03 191A4El6INAT65.6n16AT=5.6n1.6Asseen,thlehystereticlossisproportionalto the 1.6thpower of the E.M.F.,inverseproportionalto the 1.6thpower of the number of turnls,and,inverseproportionalto the .6thpower of frequency,and of cross-section.Ifo=equivalentconductance, the energycoinponent of cur-rentisC'=Ep,and the energyconsumedinconductancepis:P=CE='p.Since,however,E:1.6p=CCF1-6itis:p16aE2pN,6or,a58VL1 03 L11.P-51t4sEAr6Zn64191.4Elj17.]94A'21.6S.6n1.6EF4j1.65.6n1.6Thatis:"TCheewivvalentconductctnceduetomagnetichysteresis,ispro-portionalto the coejfieient of hysteresis,i,andto the tengtht of the ?maqneticctrcut,I,andinverseproportionalto the .4thpower of the E. 3. F-E,to the .6thpower of the frequency,-Y,andopf the cross-seetion of the magneticcirauit,5,andto the 1.6thpower of the number of turns,n."Hence, the equivalenthystereticconductanceincreaseswithde-creasingE.M.F.,anddecreaseswithincreasingE.M.F.;itvaries,however,muchslowerthan the E.M.F.,SOthat,if the hystereticconductancerepresentsonlya part of the totalenergyconsumnp-ÆTHERFORCE ... 602STEINMETZONHYSTERESIS[May18,x-frequiency,r=electricconductivity of iron.,C=coefficient of eddy-currents. The loss of energypercm .3 inergspercycle,isA=tyN1VB2,hence, the totalloss of powerbyeddy-currentsis:w=VrVN2B210-watts,and the equivalentconductanceduetoeddy-currents:o_VF10I.507I_--O_O-B22278,n2$X2where:I-length of magneticcircuit,Sesection of magneticcircuit,Annumber of turns of electriccircuit. The coefficienit of eddycurrents,a,dependsmerelyupontheAshape of the constituentparts of the magneticeireuit,thatis,whetherironplatesorwire,andthiekness of, platesordiameter of wire,etc. The twomostimportanitcasesare:(a),laminiatediron,(b)ironwire.a.LaminatedIron.Let,inFig.14,d=thickness of the ironplates,B=maximum.magneticinduction,N=frequieney,=electricconductivity of the iron.Then,ifxis the distance of azone,d?,frorn. the center of the sheet, the conductance of azone of thickness,dx,anidonecm.lengthandwidthis,dx;and the magneticfluxecutby-thiszoneis,Bx.Hence, the E.M.F.iniducedinthiszoneis:8E=7-2NWBx(c.G.S.)UDitS.ThisE.M.F.produces the current:dC=aE;,dx4/2N7AfBrxdx(C.G.S.)Units,if the thickness of the plateisnegligiblecomparedwith the length,sothat the currentcanbeassumedasflowinigparallelto the sheet,in the onedirectionat the one,in the otherdirectionat the otherside.ÆTHERFORCE ... 572STEINMETZONHYSTERESIS.[May18,havenotbeenmnadesinTce,and the explanation of thisexponent1.6isstillunknown.In the calculation of the corelossesindynamoelectricalma-chineryandintransformers, the law of hysteresishasfounditsapplicationa,andsofarasitisnotobscuredby the superposition of eddycurrentshasbeenfullyconfirmiedbypracticalexperi-ence.%AsanlinstanceisslhowninFig.1, the observedcoreloss of ahighvoltage500E.w.altornatecurrentgeneratorforpowertransmissioni. The curveisplottedwith the corelossasabscisseand the ter-minalvoltsasordinates. The observedvaluesaremarkedbycrosses,while the curve of 1.6powerisshownby the drawniline. The corelossisaverylargeandinalternatorslike the presentmachine,eveni the largest part of the totalloss of ener,gyin the machine.Withregardto the numnericalvalues of the coefficient of hysteresis, the observationsupto the time of mylastpapercover the range,97Xj 03= MaterialsFromToAverage.Wroughtiron,...