Originally posted by Ufopolitics
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I already said the Doug's description was correct. It is MM's idea that the two fields are separate that is wrong. Also you have now added another wrong piece of information. The rotor IS NOT just a magnetized inert steel drum. Take apart a squirrel cage motor and you will see the rotor has windings on it. These windings act like the secondary of the transformer and create the counter field to the stator windings to create the torque. If there were no windings on the rotor then all that would be induced would be a bunch of eddy currents with no direction and no counter force.
Here is a link to how a squirrel cage motor works with pictures of the conductors or windings in the rotor:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel-cage_rotor
Respectfully,
Carroll
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