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Electrical Safety of Low-Voltage Systems Dr. Massimo A. G. Mitolo

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by f indicate figures; numbers followed by t indicate tables.

A
Absolute refractory period, 75
Acceptable residual risk, 33–36, 34f, 35f, 36f
Accommodation, 75
Active sign convention, 273, 274f
All-or-none law, 75
Asimov, Isaac, 213
Atrioventricular node (AV), 78

B
Barriers, 11–14
Basic insulation, 1, 36–37, 37f
Basic protection, in electrical safety, 9
Beckett, Samuel, 9
Body mass, 81, 81f
Bonding jumper. See Protective bonding conductor

C
Cells, electrical nature of, 72–73, 72f
Chronaxie, 75
Circuit breaker
safety offered by, 31f
time-current characteristic of, 100, 101f
Class 0 equipment, 1, 21, 37–38
Class I equipment, 2, 11, 21, 30f, 38–39, 38f, 239
Class II equipment, 2, 20, 21, 21f, 39–41, 40f
Class III equipment, 2
Common-mode voltage, 201
Cooley, Mason, 95
Current dividers, 275, 276f

D
Differential-mode voltage, 201
Direct contact, 2, 10–18, 32–33
Distribution circuits, 100, 100f

E
Earth electrodes
corrosion phenomena, 183–185, 184t