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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">R</span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">eg</span><span style="font-size: small;">arding the origin of dynamic braking:</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would think that dynamic braking would have been understood and self-evident from the moment the first generator was invented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you turn a generator and make electricity, use that electricity to do work, it takes physical force to turn the generator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">So a working generator resists rotation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you connect it to your coasting wheels, it will slow them down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was known from the start, but there was no way to apply it until the advent of the diesel-electric locomotive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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