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With an AC synchronous electric propulsion motor driving a fixed-pitch propeller, whenever there is a direction reversal ordered from the bridge, there is a process of regenerative braking that is used to slow the motor down before the shaft actually reverses. Where is the energy associated with the inertia of rotation dissipated before reversal occurs?

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