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Alternating-Current Circuits
Physics 1112
Alternating current is commonly used everyday in homes and businesses throughout the word to power various electrical appliances
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The voltage supplied by an AC source is sinusoidal with a period T
Voltage in AC Circuits
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Resistors in AC Circuits
RMS Current & RMS Voltage• Average value of current is referred as RMS Current & average value of voltage is referred as RMS Voltage
• The notation rms stands for root-mean-square, which means the square root of the mean (average) value
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Inductors in an AC Circuit
Instantaneous current and voltage are out of phase by /2
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L is defined as inductive reactance XL
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Capacitors in an AC Circuit
Instantaneous current and voltage are out of phase by /2
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(1/C) is defined as capacitive reactance XC
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The RLC Series Circuit
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I sin( ) cos2
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Z is called impendence of circuit
Resonance in a Series RLC Circuit
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The angular frequency at which XL-XC=0 is called the resonance frequency of the circuit
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