Why do the imaginary parts of phasors in Kirchoff's Laws add to zero?

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The discussion centers on the application of Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL) in the context of phasors, specifically addressing why the imaginary parts of phasors sum to zero when the real parts do. The user demonstrates that if the sum of the cosine components equals zero, taking the derivative leads to the conclusion that the sine components must also sum to zero. This establishes a definitive relationship between the real and imaginary parts of sinusoidal voltages represented as phasors.

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Something's bugging me. Suppose we take kvl around a loop in a circuit, we have:

v1(t)+v2(t)+...=0

Suppose v1, v2, v3(t) are all sinusoidal (they can be written as Acos(wt+s)).

So we have
A1cost(wt+s1)+A2cost(wt+s2)+...=0

Suppose we replace all of them by their phasors, this should also equal zero but why? I'll write it out here (without suppressing e^jwt, but just adding the imaginary parts)

(A1cos(wt+s1)+A2cos(wt+s2)+...) + j(A1sin(wt+s1) + A2sin(wt+s2)+...)

If I know the group of real terms add to zero, does that necessary imply that the group of imaginary terms add to zero? Is there a proof of this?
 
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http://www.csupomona.edu/~zaliyazici/f2001/ece209/ece209-02.pdf

I just saw a very unsatisfying derivation of kvl for phasors here. How do you just remove the "R", and assume kvl holds for the entire phasor (not just the real part). I saw a similar technique elsewhere. They write kvl for the reals, and then R {V1+V2+...}=0 (where V1, V2 are phasors), then just remove the R. This removing of the R is bothering me. I don't see how it is justified.
 
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Figured out the answer. It's simple. I wish they just put it in the proof in my book:

If we know
A1cos(wt+s1)+A2cos(wt+s2)+...=0

then take the derivative of both sides

-A1wsin(wt+s1)-A2wsin(wt+s2)+...=0

divide by -w on both sides:

A1sin(wt+s1)+A2sin(wt+s2)+...=0

so the imaginary parts in phasor notation add to zero.
 

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