Electric Machinery Fundamentals continues to be a best-selling machinery text due to its accessible, student-friendly coverage of the important topics in the field.
Chapman's clear writing illuminates the subject matter for students and practicing engineers.
In the fifth edition, the use of MATLAB® continues to be incorporated in examples and problems, where applicable. The targeted and thought-provoking problems you've come to appreciate have been retained in this edition.
Key Features of the Fifth Edition
Learning objectives have been added to the beginning of each chapter to enhance student learning.
Flexible topic coverage allows either ac or dc material to be covered first.
A wealth of end-of-chapter problems are included, many of them new or revised. These revisions include new synchronous machine and induction motor problems based on the data sheets of real machines.
MATLAB coverage is integrated into problems and examples.
Updated coverage of topics appears throughout the text, including increased coverage of new trends in the industry, such as the use of induction generators for cell phone towers.