What are some resources one can check out to start increasing their understanding of these, starting from roughly zero?
Your best bet is college textbooks. This one is good: http://epp.etf.rs/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Fitzgerald_E...
Animation of Electric Machines
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#13For similar animations for purely mechanical devices. http://507movements.com/ and King Mechanical https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq5j3ecL5WohYKF7RV_qUGg
Both are great, I suspect I'm going to sink countless hours into them.
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#14I wish I understood this stuff more; it seems like there is probably much wealth of knowledge in electrical engineering that I wouldn't learn anything remotely similar to in other fields of study
Power engineering is vast. Machinery, generation/transmission/distribution, high voltage are the main topics. They're very much intertwined with each other so maybe it's pointless to divide it into topics. Of course it's still part of the broader electrical engineering subject.
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#15What are some resources one can check out to start increasing their understanding of these, starting from roughly zero?
https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Technology-H-Cotton-ebook/... an older edition of this was my textbook back in the day. You can only understand motors with this book. You'll also need a textbook on power electronics to learn how to supply them electricity. Maybe a textbook on control systems to learn how to control them.
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#16What are some resources one can check out to start increasing their understanding of these, starting from roughly zero?
Electric Motors and Drives[0] is very good. Not very mathematical, and gives a lot of intuition. If you understand basic electronics and can do arithmetic you can follow most of the book. Some parts are harder than others but if you keep going it will eventually make sense.
Edit: I took a look at some of the other books people recommended and they seem more advanced, this book is easier than them and probably better for someone without an EE background. I am not sure how to best learn electronics (I learned from The Art of Electronics, but that is probably not the easiest way to learn, and probably overkill for just learning how motors work.)
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Motors-Drives-Fundamentals-A...
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#17What are some resources one can check out to start increasing their understanding of these, starting from roughly zero?
Less on machines on more on basic concepts, may I recommend a physics site that is spiritually related to this website, in that it is also clear, simple, and in many ways a work of passion for teaching? http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/emcon.html#emcon
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#18What are some resources one can check out to start increasing their understanding of these, starting from roughly zero?
Starting from roughly zero, I'd recommend this page and its neighbours:
http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop/advice/coils/force.html