Tag: AC Resistive Circuit

The Skin Depth of Copper in Electrical Engineering As previously mentioned, the skin effect is where alternating...

In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That is, its opposition to AC current is strictly based...

Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit and connect them in parallel: Parallel R-L...

In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple resistor-only and inductor-only AC circuits. Now we...

Resistors vs. Inductors Inductors do not behave the same way as resistors do. Whereas resistors simply oppose the flow...

Pure resistive AC circuit: resistor voltage and current are in phase. If we were to plot the current and voltage for...