Unit 2 Magnetic Circuits

After this presentation you should be able to:

 Explain the analogy between electrical and magnetic circuits

 Represent a magnetic circuit using reluctances and MMF sources.
 Combine series and parallel reluctance values to find total reluctance
 Perform calculations to find flux distributions using dc circuit analogy.

Let us consider a simple magnetic circuit composed of the following

 a coil of wire with ‘N’ number of turns, and connected to a dc source
 an iron core, around which is the coil is wrapped in one of its legs and an air gap in the iron core