why exactly do squirrel-cage induction motors have the bars in their rotors angled like that anyway

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also why do they call it a squirrel cage and not like, a rat wheel or something because it sure looks a lot more like one of those exercise wheels you give to rodents than it does anything you'd use to capture a squirrel

why would you want to cage a squirrel anyway

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