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My professor made this statement: "the power dissipated by an inductor will always be purely reactive and represented at 90 degrees" (we label real power as a phasor at 0 degrees, inductive reactive power at 90 degrees and capacitive at -90)
Why is this?
I made a little example with a series circuit with a 20V<0 source, Rt = 310 ohms, ZL = j300 ohms, and ZC = -j50 ohms. I calculated the source current as 50.22mA<38.88 degrees. Now QL (reactive power) = I^2*ZL which gives 756.6mW<12.23. Now how come I can drop the angle off the answer? Is it because it will be purely reactive no matter what angle it's located, so you can just represent it at 90 degrees? I'm so confused.
Why is this?
I made a little example with a series circuit with a 20V<0 source, Rt = 310 ohms, ZL = j300 ohms, and ZC = -j50 ohms. I calculated the source current as 50.22mA<38.88 degrees. Now QL (reactive power) = I^2*ZL which gives 756.6mW<12.23. Now how come I can drop the angle off the answer? Is it because it will be purely reactive no matter what angle it's located, so you can just represent it at 90 degrees? I'm so confused.