Category: AC Circuits

Harmonics

In an AC circuit, a resistance behaves in exactly the same way as it does in a DC circuit. That is, the current flowing through

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Reactive Power

In a DC circuit, the product of “volts x amps” gives the power consumed in watts by the circuit. However, while this formula is also

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RMS Voltage Tutorial

In our tutorial about the AC Waveform we looked briefly at the RMS Voltage value of a sinusoidal waveform and said that this RMS value gives the same heating

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Series RLC Circuit Analysis

Thus far we have seen that the three basic passive components of: Resistance, Inductance, and Capacitance have very different phase relationships to each other when connected to a sinusoidal

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