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SINGLE-PHASE EXCITATION

A sinusoidally distributed winding is excited with a sinusoidal current. The resulting pulsating radial field distribution is shown plotted along a circular path in the air gap (which is greatly enlarged for visual purposes). The space vector representation of this sinusoidal distribution is shown as a vector pointing to where the field is maximum positive (along the horizontal axis) and of length proportional to the maximum field strength at that moment.