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---
author: Akbar Rahman
date: \today
title: MMME2051 // Transformers
tags: [ transformers, alternating_current, ac ]
uuid: 486f441f-14ec-41e5-94f9-06f25c534086
lecture_slides: [ ./lecture_slides/MMME2051EMD_Lecture8.pdf ]
exercise_sheets: [ ./exercise_sheets/Exercise Sheet 11 - Transformers.pdf ]
---
Transformers are used to convert between AC voltages.
Transmission is always done at very high voltage to reduce copper losses (heat loss, $E = i^2R$).
![](./images/how.png)
A current carrying coil induces a magnet inside the core.
Another coil is wrapped around the core.
This coil has a current induced in it by induced magnetic field.
![](./images/vimscrot-2023-03-23T11:15:40,310863581+00:00.png)
$$\frac{i_s}{i_p} = \frac{v_p}{v_s} = \frac{n_p}{n_s} = \text{turns ratio}$$
**Note that the current fraction is s over p, not p over s like the others.**
Transformers have very high efficiency so will not be considered for this module and
has been left out of the equation above.
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Derivation in lecture slides (pp. 12-15).
Transformers are usually described as having a ratio $p:s$, where $p$ is the number of primary coils
and $s$ the number of secondary coils.
![Symbol of an "Isolaton Tranformer". The dot indicates polarity.](./images/vimscrot-2023-03-23T11:17:40,931099514+00:00.png)
## Referred Impedance
$$\frac{Z_P}{Z_S} = \left(\frac{n_p}{n_s}\right)^2$$
Derivation in in lecture slides (pp. 19-21).