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The_Lobster
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Homework Statement
Do you think a meter will handle an a.c. current of any frequency?
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
Since we can illustrate an ammeter as a moving coil with a resistor in parallel, and since all elements in a circuit will exhibit inductive and capacitive behavior when the frequency is any other than 0 Hz, the impedance across the parallel resistor will increase with increasing frequency as the inductive reactance increases ([tex] X_L = \omega L[/tex]) (while the capacitive reactance nears 0), so more and more current will bypass the shunt resistor and go straight through the moving coil of the ammeter and this could clip it (?).
Though, since the moving coil also has *some* resistance, this will also have increasing impedance with increasing frequency, so the above might not hold?