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angular frequency of the stationary flux, and  counterpoise ground  buried conductor
                              the magnitude of the rotating fluxes is half  routed under transmission lines designed to
                              the magnitude of the stationary flux. Mathe-  achieve low earth electrode resistance.
                              matically, this is described by the following
                              equation:                              coupled inductor  two inductors within a
                                                                     switching converter, which have similar volt-
                                 B cos θ sin ωt = 0.5B sin ωt − θ    age waveforms, are wound on the same mag-
                                               + 0.5B sin ωt + θ     netic core to steer the ripple from one wind-
                                                                                                     ´
                                                                     ing to another. A typical example is a Cuk
                              where the left-hand term represents the time-  converterwithanisolationtransformerwhere
                              varying flux magnitude along the spatial di-  the input and output inductors are coupled
                              rection θ, and the right-hand terms represent  with the transformer to provide zero ripple
                                                                                                     ´
                              forward and backward rotating fields of con-  at the input and the output. See also Cuk
                              stant magnitude rotating about θ. The fol-  converter.
                              lowing diagram illustrates this relationship.
                              Resolution of the stationary flux into two ro-  coupled line filter  a type of microstrip
                              tating fluxes allows induction machine per-  or stripline filter that is composed of parallel
                              formance to be analyzed using standard ro-  transmission lines. Bandwidth is controlled
                              tating field theories. The total machine per-  by adjusting the transmission line spacing.
                              formance is determined from the net result  Wider bandwidths are obtained by tighter
                              of both rotating fluxes. Also called double  coupling. A two-port circuit is formed by
                              revolving-field theory.                 terminating two of the four ports in either
                                                                     open or short circuits, which leaves ten pos-
                                                                     sible combinations. Different combinations
                                                                     are used to synthesize low-pass, bandpass, all
                                                                     pass, and all stop frequency responses.

                                                                     coupled lines  the electromagnetic field of
                                                                     two unshielded transmission lines in prox-
                                                                     imity can interact with each other to form
                                                                     coupled lines. Usually three conductors are
                                                                     needed. Examples of coupled lines are cou-
                                                                     pled microstrip lines and coupled striplines.

                                                                     coupled Riccati equations  a set of dif-
                                                                     ferential or algebraic matrix equations of
                                                                     the Riccati type arising in the jump linear
                              Counter-rotating field concept.         quadratic problem which should be solved
                                                                     simultaneously. The set of coupled differen-
                                                                     tial Riccati equations has a form
                              counter-torque  torque developed in op-              0
                                                                        ˙
                              position to the rotation of a machine. It is  K(i, t) + A(i) K(i, t) + K(i, t)A(i)
                                                                         s
                              produced as load current flows in the pres-  X
                                                                           q ij K(j, t) + Q(i)
                              ence of and perpendicular to magnetic flux in
                              a machine that is generating electric power.  j=1
                                                                                            0
                                                                        − K(i, t)B(i)R(i) −1 B(i) K(i, t) = 0
                              counterpoise  a ground wire buried be-
                              neath an overhead line to lower footing  for i ∈ S ={1, 2,...,s}, t ∈[0,T ]
                              impedance.                             and terminal condition K(i, T ) = 0 where



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