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How can Inductive and Capacitive Reactance can be explained?

 
 
Eimis
 
Reply Sun 6 Oct, 2019 06:47 am
I am trying to understand this Xinductive=Lw and Xcapacitive=1/wC
I can't wrap my head around this, how can both measurements be in Ohms? I mean I get it resistance is measured in it, but how can you get it from these formulas ? what happens to Radians by the way? how any of these measurements result in ohms?
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Reply Tue 8 Oct, 2019 02:17 pm
@Eimis,
Here is a free course in basic electronics. http://www.phy.davidson.edu/instrumentation/NEETS.htm

When you apply a voltage to a capacitor it draws a current to charge, but it does not charge instantly. As the voltage drops to zero, the current reaches a maximum. So you draw the current wave and the voltage wave together and you see that they are 90 degrees out of phase.

When you apply a voltage to an inductor it does not draw a current right away. As the voltage drops to zero, the current reaches a maximum because the inductor has a field that generates a current as it collapses. So you draw the current wave and the voltage wave together and you see that they are 90 degrees out of phase.

ELI the ICE man -- Voltage in an inductor leads the current, current in a capacitor leads the voltage.

Ohms simply means voltage divided by current. That does not need any explanation. It is imaginary. Very useful, but still imaginary.
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