Symbolic Representation of General Alternating Waves and of Double Frequency Vector Products.pdfVIP

A payerfresented at the Sixteenth General Meet- ing of the A merican Institute of Electrical Engineers, Boston, June 26th, z899, President Kennelly in the Chair. SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF GENERAL AL- TERNATING WAVES AND OF DOUBLE FREQUENCY VECTOR PRODUCTS. BY CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ. PART 1. a. Graphically alternating currents and E. M. F.s are usually represelnted by vectors. A vector is a quantity having length and direction. The length represents the intensity, the direction the phase of the alternating wave. The vectors generally issue from the center of co-ordinates. In the topographic