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Electric Drives, deals with the basic and fundamental concepts of electric drives in a comprehensive way. Summary Of The Book Electric Drives is an ideal textbook for B.E courses, AMIE, as well as diploma courses in Electrical Engineering. This book is also extremely useful for those aspir ing to take various competitive exams like the GATE and UPSC. It is also a useful reference book for practicing engineering. The book covers a wide range of topics, from principles and techniques, to industrial applications. The authors have included characteristic features of drives, transients in drive systems, methods of speed control and braking, electromagnetic and solid state control of motors. It gives all the background material, technical details, and essential details of all the latest developments in the field of electric drives. In the Introduction, the authors give an in-depth explanation of the concepts and classification of electric drives, components of electric drives, classification of control schemes, classification of methods of speed control and components of electric drives. This is followed by chapters on Speed-Torque Characteristics of Motors, Transients and Dynamics, Speed Control of DC Motors, Motor Starters and Controllers, Heating and Power Rating of Drive Motors and Industrial Applications. These are followed by a Bibliography. The authors have provided several examples, and have analysed them in great detail. Chapters 2 to 6 have a large number of solved and unsolved problems, which enhance the student’s understanding of the topics. Answers to all these problems have been provided at the end of the book. About The Authors Nisit K. De is an Associate Professor. De has also co-authored Electric Machines and Electric Drives: Problems With Solutions, Regenerative Braking Performance Analysis of a Thyristor-Chopper Controlled DC Series Motor, Microcomputer as a Programmable Controller for State Feedback Control of a DC Motor Employing Thyristor Amplifier. De has more than 30 years of teaching experience. He is an associate professor, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. De has also written various papers, which have been published in national and international journals. Prasanta K. Sen is an Assistant Professor and Author. He is the assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Durgapur. He has been teaching Electrical Machines and Machine Design since 1968.